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US 8,805,866 B2Granted
Augmenting metadata using user entered metadata
AssigneeHulu, LLC
InventorsZhibing Wang, Yupeng Liao
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AssigneeHulu, LLC
InventorsZhibing Wang, Yupeng Liao
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In one embodiment, a method obtains metadata associated with a media program. The method receives user entered metadata from a first user for an object in a frame of the media program and compares the user entered metadata from the first user with user entered metadata from second users for the object. Then, the method verifies that the user entered metadata from the first user and the second users should be associated as augmenting metadata for the object in the media program based on the comparison. Upon verifying, the method performs: determining metadata storage including metadata for one or more other objects in the media program and storing the user entered metadata for the object in the media program in the metadata storage for the media program as the augmenting metadata.
A method of obtaining metadata associated with a media program, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for obtaining metadata associated with a media program, wherein the instructions, when executed, control a computer system to be configured for:
An apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.