Implicit user interest marks in media content

摘要

Automatically marking locations of user interest in media content is disclosed. Data that describes user interaction with media content is analyzed to determine locations of potential interest. For each of the locations of potential interest, the data is analyzed to determine whether user interest satisfies a criterion for establishing a mark for the location. Marks are determined for those locations that satisfy the criterion. A mark includes a description for a given location and information that allows the given location to be automatically presented to a user upon selection of the description. In another aspect, extrinsic data that is separate from a piece of media content is analyzed to determine whether moments of high user interest might exist in the piece of media content. Then, the piece of media content is scanned to find locations in the media content that correspond to the moments.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method of providing marks associated with media content, said method comprising:
automatically searching extrinsic information over a network for a summary description of an event, the summary description stating times in the event at which respective key moments occurred in the event; automatically analyzing said summary description of the event in order to determine whether moments of high user interest might exist in a piece of media content that contains the event; accessing audio/video content of the event, wherein the summary description of the event is derived independently from user interaction with audio/video content of the event; determining locations in the accessed audio/video content that correspond to each of the moments of high user interest, including scanning the accessed audio/video content to find locations in the accessed audio/video content that correspond to the times in the event at which respective key moments occurred in the event, wherein the times in the event are independent of elapsed time in the accessed audio/video content; determining an identifier of each of the locations, said identifier for a given location allows the given location to be determined by an electronic device; associating a unique description with each of the identifiers; and providing the unique descriptions and the identifiers of the locations to at least one user electronic device to enable selective viewing of portions of the audio/video content that correspond to the moments of high user interest.