Digital video recorder collaboration and similar media segment determination
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsMukul Jain, Shmuel Shaffer
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for performing actions with media information using a digital video recorder is provided. In one embodiment, a user may mark a media segment in media using a digital video recorder. Characteristics for the media segment are then determined. A second media segment in second media may then be determined. For example, the second media segment may have similar characteristics to the first media segment. In one example, an advertisement that is similar to the advertisement marked as the first media segment may be determined. An action may then be performed with the second media segment. For example, the second media segment may be removed from the second media.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- identifying a marking of a first portion of first media by a user, wherein the marking of the first portion of the first media indicates that the first portion of the first media should be omitted in subsequent playbacks of stored media;
- determining, using at least one processor device, that the marking is a trusted marking to be applied to media stored on both a corresponding digital video recorder of the user and digital video recorders of other users;
- determining, using at least one processor device, characteristics of the first portion of the first media based, at least in part, on the marking of the first portion of the first media by the user;
- identifying a commonality between the first portion of the first media and a particular portion of second media stored on a particular one of the digital video recorders of the other users based, at least in part, on the determined characteristics of the first portion of the first media, wherein the second media is different from the first media and the particular portion of the second media is less than all of the second media;
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- causing the particular portion of the second media to be omitted from playback of the second media from the particular digital video recorder based on the marking.
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to:
- identify a marking of a first portion of first media by a user, wherein the marking of the first portion of the first media indicates that the first portion of the first media should be omitted in subsequent playbacks of stored media;
- determine that the marking is a trusted marking to be applied to media stored on both a corresponding digital video recorder of the user and digital video recorders of other users;
- determine characteristics of the first portion of the first media based, at least in part, on the marking of the first portion of the first media by the user;
- identify a commonality between the first portion of the first media and a particular portion of second media stored on a particular one of the digital video recorders of the other users based, at least in part, on the determined characteristics of the first portion of the first media, wherein the second media is different from the first media and the particular portion of the second media is less than all of second media;
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- cause the particular portion of the second media to be omitted from playback of the second media from the particular digital video recorder based on the marking.
Logic encoded in non-transitory media that includes code for execution and when executed by a processor is operable to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a marking of a first portion of first media by a user, wherein the marking of the first portion of the first media indicates that the first portion of the first media should be omitted in subsequent playbacks of stored media;
- determining, using at least one processor device, that the marking is a trusted marking to be applied to media stored on both a corresponding digital video recorder of the user and digital video recorders of other users;
- determining, using at least one processor device, characteristics of the first portion of the first media based, at least in part, on the marking of the first portion of the first media by the user;
- identifying a commonality between the first portion of the first media and a particular portion of second media stored on a particular one of the digital video recorders of the other users based, at least in part, on the determined characteristics of the first portion of the first media, wherein the second media is different from the first media and the particular portion of the second media is less than all of second media;
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- causing the particular portion of the second media to be omitted from playback of the second media from the particular digital video recorder based on the marking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.