Automated media clipping and combination system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10242007-B2
Application number	US-201514799149-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2015
Priority date	Jul 14, 2015
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

A system may receive a search term from a user device. The system may identify a set of media files based on the search term, the set of media files including multiple media files. The system may automatically create a single media file by combining the multiple media files, from the set of media files, into the single media file. The system may output the single media file for presentation on the user device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
one or more server devices to:
obtain a media file from a user device;
associate keywords with the media file;
determine a relevancy score for the media file based on relevancy factors,
the relevancy factors including:
a measure of popularity of the media file based on a set of positive actions and a set of negative actions performed on the media file,
a first weight assigned to a first keyword of the keywords associated with the media file, and
a second weight assigned to a second keyword of the keywords associated with the media file,
 the first weight being different from the second weight;

receive a search term from the user device;
determine whether the search term matches at least one of the keywords associated with the media file;
generate a threshold relevancy score and a combined threshold relevancy score based on historical data;
identify a set of media files based on the search term and based on combined relevancy score satisfying the combined threshold relevancy score,
the combined relevancy score being a sum of relevancy scores of the set of media files, and
the set of media files including the media file based on the search term matching at least one of the keywords associated with the media file and based on the relevancy score for the media file satisfying the threshold relevancy score;

automatically create a single media file by combining the set of media files into the single media file; and
output the single media file for presentation on the user device.

2. The system of claim 1 , where the one or more server devices are further to:
compare the search term with stored keywords; and
where the one or more server devices, when identifying the set of media files, are to:
identify one or more media files associated with a stored keyword, of the stored keywords, that matches the search term.

3. The system of claim 1 , where the one or more server devices are further to:
compare the search term with stored keywords; and
provide a notification that the single media file could not be created based on the search term not matching any of the stored keywords.

4. The system of claim 1 , where the one or more server devices are further to:
determine the relevancy factors for determining the relevancy score for the media file; and
where the one or more server devices, when determining the relevancy score for the media file, are to:
determine the relevancy score for the media file based on a level of importance assigned to the relevancy factors.

5. The system of claim 4 , where the level of importance is determined without user input specifying the level of importance assigned to each of the relevancy factors.

6. The system of claim 1 , where the one or more server devices, when identifying the set of media files, are to:
select media files for the set of media files based on a relevancy score for each of the set of media files satisfying the threshold relevancy score.

7. The system of claim 1 , where the keywords are generated based on at least one of:
metadata, or
one or more comments provided by a user accessing the media file.

8. A computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
obtain a media file from a user device;
associate keywords with the media file;
determine a relevancy score for the media file based on relevancy factors,
the relevancy factors including:
a measure of popularity of the media file based on a set of positive actions and a set of negative actions performed on the media file,
a first weight assigned to a first keyword of the keywords associated with the media file, and
a second weight assigned to a second keyword of the keywords associated with the media file,
 the first weight being different from the second weight;

receive a search term from the user device;
determine whether the search term matches at least one of the keywords associated with the media file;
generate a threshold relevancy score and a combined threshold relevancy score based on historical data;
identify a set of media files based on the search term and based on a combined relevancy score satisfying the combined threshold relevancy score,
the combined relevancy score being a sum of relevancy scores of the set of media files, and
the set of media files including the media file based on the search term matching at least one of the keywords associated with the media file and based on the relevancy score for the media file satisfying the threshold relevancy score;

automatically create a single media file by combining the set of media files into the single media file; and
output the single media file for presentation on the user device.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the keywords are generated based on information provided with the media file.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:
determine a ranking for the media file; and
where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to automatically create the single media file by combining the set of media files, cause the one or more processors to:
automatically create the single media file by combining the set of media files based on the ranking.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine the ranking, cause the one or more processors to:
determine the ranking based on the relevancy score for the media file.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine the ranking, cause the one or more processors to:
determine the ranking based on a file size for the media file.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine the ranking, cause the one or more processors to:
determine the ranking based on a measure of quality for the media file.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the measure of popularity of the media file is determined based on a quantity of actions performed on the media file.

15. A method, comprising:
obtaining, by a server device, a media file from a user device;
associating, by the server device, keywords with the media file;
determining, by the server device, one or more relevancy scores for the media file based on relevancy factors,
the relevancy factors including:
a measure of popularity of the media file based on a set of positive actions and a set of negative actions performed on the media file, and
a first weight assigned to a first keyword of the keywords associated with the media file, and
a second weight assigned to a second keyword of the keywords associated with the media file,
the first weight being different from the second weight;

receiving, by the server device, a search term from the user device;
determine, by the server device, whether the search term matches at least one of the keywords associated with the media file;
generating, by the server device, a threshold relevancy score and a combined threshold relevancy score based on historical data;
identifying, by the server device, a set of media files based on a combined relevancy score satisfying the combined threshold relevancy score,
the combined relevancy score b

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Blong Devin
• Flores Kevin
• MEJIA Mat
• Chaudhary Tushar
• VAKHARIYA Paresh
• Goldsmith Jason
• Sharma Manish

Classifications

• G06F17/30058 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30038

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/4393 Primary

  Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums · CPC title

• G06F16/48

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06F16/44 Primary

  Browsing; Visualisation therefor · CPC title