发明名称 Method and apparatus for navigating and playing back media content
摘要 An approach is provided for navigating media content by specifying a time to start playback of the media content.
申请公布号 US9479836(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.10.25
申请号 US200912471707 申请日期 2009.05.26
申请人 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. 发明人 Adimatyam Venkata S.;Ganesan Srikrishnan;Gavade Sameer
分类号 H04N7/173;H04N21/482;H04N5/445;H04N21/45;H04N21/258;H04N21/25;H04N21/433 主分类号 H04N7/173
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主权项 1. A method comprising: prior to beginning playback of a media content: presenting to a user a total time duration of an entirety of the media content as a numerical time value, two or more suggested playback points, and an input area for the user to enter a specific numerical time value within the time duration of the media content to begin playback of the media content, wherein presenting the two or more suggested playback points comprises analyzing playback information corresponding to a plurality of aggregated inputs from a plurality of other users indicating playback points of the media content and corresponding times of the playback points within the time duration of the media content, and determining the two or more suggested playback points based on the playback information,receiving an input from the user specifying a playback point from which to start playback of the media content, andbeginning playing back the media content from the specified playback point; and after beginning playback of the media content: presenting to the user a current playback position of the media content being played back as another numerical time value, the two or more suggested playback points to skip to from the current playback position, and another input area for the user to enter another specific numerical time value within the time duration of the media content to skip to from the current playback position, wherein the two or more suggested playback points and the specific numerical time value the user can enter can be before the current playback position as well as after the current playback position,receiving another input from the user specifying a playback point from which to skip to from the current playback position, andcontinuing playing back the media content from the specified playback point from which to skip to from the current playback position.
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