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US 8,914,826 B2Granted
Method and system for creating a chapter menu for a video program
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsEnrique Ruiz-Velasco, Japan A. Mehta, Laxmi M. Patel, Shafiq Kassam
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Abstract
An approach is provided for the real-time creation of a menu of chapters for navigating a video program. The chaptering process creates at a dynamic chapter navigation menu that enables a user to precisely navigate within a video program by recursively creating chaptering points of finer temporal granularity for selecting a desired point within the video program.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving a request from a user for creating a menu of chapters for a video program, each chapter representing a video segment of the video program;
- creating, by a processor, an updateable menu based on the request;
- presenting the user with the updateable menu;
- and
- receiving input from the user for selecting a particular chapter from and/or updating the updateable menu,
- wherein the video program includes at least broadcast content, pay-per-view content, Internet Protocol Television content, data communication services content, Internet-based content, or combination thereof, and is provided to the user by one or more service providers and/or content providers
- wherein the updateable menu includes a plurality of chapters designated as beginning by a plurality of chapter points, and a common time interval is provided between each adjacent chapter point,
- wherein an input from the user results in creation in the updateable menu of chapters of a plurality of sub-chapters in the common time interval between at least one set of adjacent chapter points, and the common interval between all adjacent chapter points is not changed by the plurality of sub-chapters, and
- wherein the plurality of sub-chapters in the updateable menu of chapters are designated as beginning by a plurality of sub-chapter points, and another common time interval is provided between each adjacent subchapter point that is less that the common time interval between each adjacent chapter point.
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A set-top box apparatus comprising:
- an input interface configured to receive a request from a user for creating a menu of chapters for a video program, each chapter representing a video segment of the video program;
- a chaptering module configured to create an updateable menu based on the request;
- a presentation module configured to present the user with the updateable menu;
- and
- the input interface further configured to receive input from the user for selecting a particular chapter and/or updating the updateable menu,
- wherein the video program includes at least broadcast content, pay-per-view content, Internet Protocol Television content, data communication services content, Interact-based content, or combination thereof, and is provided to the user by one or more service providers and/or content providers,
- wherein the updateable menu includes a plurality of chapters designated as beginning by a plurality of chapter points, and a common time interval is provided between each adjacent chapter point,
- wherein an input from the user results in creation in the updateable menu of chapters of a plurality of sub-chapters in the common time interval between at least one set of adjacent chapter points, and the common interval between all adjacent chapter points is not changed by the plurality of sub-chapters, and wherein the plurality of sub-chapters in the updateable menu of chapters are designated as beginning by a plurality of sub-chapter points, and another common time interval is provided between each adjacent subchapter point that is less that the common time interval between each adjacent chapter point.
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A system comprising:
- a processor configured to receive a request from a user for creating a menu of chapters for a video program, each chapter representing a video segment of the video program, create an updateable menu based on the request, present the user with the updateable menu, and receive input from the user for selecting a particular chapter and/or updating the updatable menu,
- wherein the input results in either playback from the particular chapter or presentation of a menu of additional chapters defined at a finer temporal granularity,
- wherein the chaptering manager is coupled to a multimedia system with connectivity to a plurality of video sources,
- wherein the video program includes at least broadcast content, pay-per-view content, Internet Protocol Television content, data communication services content, Internet-based content, or combination thereof, and is provided to the user by one or more service providers and/or content providers,
- wherein the updateable menu includes a plurality of chapters designated as beginning by a plurality of chapter points, and a common time interval is provided between each adjacent chapter point,
- wherein an input from the user results in creation in the updateable menu of chapters of a plurality of sub-chapters in the common time interval between at least one set of adjacent chapter points, and the common interval between all adjacent chapter points is not changed by the plurality of sub-chapters, and
- wherein the plurality of sub-chapters in the updateable menu of chapters are designated as beginning by a plurality of sub-chapter points, and another common time interval is provided between each adjacent subchapter point that is less that the common time interval between each adjacent chapter point.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.