Automatic identification of digital content related to a block of text, such as a blog entry

摘要

A system for identifying digital content related to a portion of a block of text receives, automatically or via input by a user, an indication of one or more words included in the block of text. The system searches a database of digital content based on the one or more words and retrieves from the database one or more digital content items or identifiers of digital content items that are related to the one or more words. The system provides the retrieved digital content items or identifiers to the user, and receives a selection of one or more of the provided items or identifiers from the user. The system associates for display or replay the one or more selected digital content items with the one or more words in the block of text. Other embodiments of the system are also disclosed.

主权项

1. A method of identifying digital content related to a portion of a block of text, the method comprising:
receiving an indication of one or more words included in the block of text for which related digital content is to be identified, wherein:
the one or more words are not manually provided as search queries for digital content; andthe digital content comprises still or moving digital images; providing the block of text to a computer-implemented service that:
separates the one or more words included in the block of text into one or more segments comprising phrases or individual words;searches a dataset of digital content based on the one or more segmented phrases or individual words;retrieves from the dataset one or more digital content items or identifiers associated with the one or more digital content items, wherein the digital content items are related to the one or more segmented phrases or individual words, the dataset of digital content containing licensing information regarding the one or more digital content items are licensed or unlicensed;determines from the licensing information, for each of the one or more retrieved digital content items or identifiers, whether a license has been indicated; receiving an indication from the computer-implemented service of retrieved digital content items or identifiers for which a license has been indicated; presenting the indication of retrieved digital content items or identifiers to a user; receiving a selection of one or more of the presented digital content items or identifiers from the user; and receiving for display or replay the one or more selected digital content items or the one or more digital content items associated with the one or more selected identifiers with the one or more words in the block of text.