Intelligent console for content-based interactivity

摘要

The intelligent console method and apparatus of the present invention includes a powerful, intuitive, yet highly flexible means for accessing a multi-media system having multiple multi-media data types. The present intelligent console provides an interactive display of linked multi-media events based on a user's personal taste. The intelligent console includes a graph/data display that can provide several graphical representations of the events that satisfy user queries. The user can access an event simply by selecting the time of interest on the timeline of the graph/data display. Because the system links together all of the multi-media data types associated with a selected event, the intelligent console synchronizes and displays the multiple media data when a user selects the event. Complex queries can be made using the present intelligent console. The user is alerted to the events satisfying the complex queries and if the user chooses, the corresponding and associated multi-media data is displayed.

主权项

1. A system for presenting data on a user's computer or other physical device that executes an interactive console for user interactions, the data being associated with defined context-based events, wherein the data is retrieved from at least one database based upon receiving an event-selection criterion from the user's computer or other physical device that executes the interactive console, the system including:
the at least one database to store the data associated with defined context-based events, the data being captured and stored in the at least one database as the context-based events occur, and the data being stored in various media formats; a query generator to generate a standing query, the standing query including at least one condition that is based on the event-selection criterion received from a user, the query generator in communication with the at least one database; a query processing unit to process the query and identify the data that is associated with the at least one condition of the standing query, the query processing unit in communication with the query generator and the at least one database, wherein the interactive console is in communication with the query processing unit and the at least one database and receive the event-selection criterion from the user and display a list of context-based events associated with the data that satisfies the at least one condition of the standing query; and a media player for each media format in the at least one database, each media player associated with a particular media format and operable to present the data associated with the defined context-based events in the particular media format via the interactive console, wherein each media player comprises a portion of the interactive console.