System and method for content retrieval
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsCurtis G. Wong, Steven Drucker
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Abstract
A content retrieval system is provided. The system includes a communications signal analyzing system for receiving a communications signal and decoding the signal to generate key search terms associated with the communications signal. A search engine system performs a content based search using the key search terms. A display system displays search results from the search engine system concurrently with displaying an output corresponding to the communications signal.
Claims18
A user device for providing supplemental information to a multi-media data stream, the device comprising:
- a processor coupled to a memory;
- a receiver component configured to receive a multi-media data stream;
- a decoding component configured to decode the received multi-media data stream and convert the data stream to text for use by a keyword generation component;
- a keyword generation component that generates search terms from the converted data stream;
- wherein the user device is configured to:
- receive a multi-media data stream via the receiver component;
- output the multi-media data stream for display to a user on an output device;
- decode the multi-media data stream and convert the data stream to text for use by a keyword generation component via the decoding component;
- generate keywords corresponding to the converted data stream;
- obtain search results based on the generated keywords;
- and
- output the search results for display to the user on the output device concurrent with the output of the multi-media data stream.
A method for providing supplemental information to a multi-media data communication, comprising:
- receiving a multi-media data communication from at least one remotely located server, where the multi-media data communication comprises broadcasting image data, broadcasting audio data, and closed captioning data;
- decoding on a processor coupled to a memory the broadcasting image data, broadcasting audio data and closed captioning data;
- converting the broadcasting image data, broadcasting audio data and closed captioning data to text for use in generation of search terms;
- employing the processor to generate search terms associated with the converted broadcasting image data, broadcasting audio data and closed captioning data;
- storing the search terms in the memory;
- performing a search to yield results utilizing the search terms, the search results are uniform resource locators (URLs) of web pages containing information relevant to the search;
- and
- displaying on a display device the search results to a user concurrently with outputting the corresponding broadcasting image data, broadcasting audio data, and closed captioning data.
A system for acquiring information, comprising:
- means for receiving at a client device, from at least one remotely located server, communication broadcasting image data, broadcasting audio data, and closed captioning data;
- the client device further comprising:
- means for decoding, with a processor coupled to a memory, the closed captioning data and converting the decoded closed captioning data to text used for determining search terms;
- means for determining, with the processor, search terms created in accordance with the decoded data;
- means for storing, in a memory, the closed captioning data and the determined search terms;
- means for performing, with the processor, a search to yield results utilizing the search terms, wherein the results are uniform resource locators (URLs) of web pages containing information relevant to the search;
- and
- means for displaying the results of the search to a user concurrently with outputting the corresponding broadcasting image, audio and closed captioning data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.