System and method for visualization of tag metadata associated with a media event

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10970357-B2
Application number	US-84798410-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2010
Priority date	Jul 30, 2010
Publication date	Apr 6, 2021
Grant date	Apr 6, 2021

Abstract

A system and method are provided for summarizing multiple aspects of tags associated with media events. In the system and method, tag metadata for tags generated at one or more user interfaces associated with at least one media event is obtained. Thereafter, tags are organized into a hierarchy of tags based on the metadata and a metadata sorting criteria. Additionally, tag significance data for tags is computed based on the metadata and the hierarchy. A visual representation of the tags can then be generated, where indicia for the tags is spatially arranged to visually depict the hierarchy of the tags are selected to visually depict at least a relative significance among sibling tags in the hierarchy.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processor via a communication interface, a tag request;
obtaining, from the tag request, tag metadata for a plurality of tags generated during a live media event, the plurality of tags being associated with the live media event and wherein the tag metadata is responsive to the tag request;
organizing, by the processor, the plurality of tags into a hierarchy of tags based on a sorting criteria of the tag metadata, the hierarchy of tags comprising a first level of tags, a second level of tags below the first level of tags, and a third level of tags below the second level of tags, wherein the first level of tags represents temporal segments of the live media event, wherein the second level of tags represents speakers associated with the live media event, wherein the third level of tags represents discussion topics associated with the live media event, and wherein at least one tag occurs in two or more locations in the hierarchy of tags;
computing, by the processor, tag significance data for the hierarchy of tags based, at least in part, on the tag metadata and wherein the tag significance data for a tag comprises at least one of a frequency of use of the tag, a duration of a media segment associated with the tag, and a similarity measure of the tag; and
generating, by the processor, a visual representation, for presentation by a user terminal coupled to the processor, of the hierarchy of tags, wherein a plurality of indicia for the hierarchy of tags are spatially arranged to form one of a treemap and a set diagram of the plurality of indicia, wherein sibling tags of the hierarchy of tags are represented by sibling nodes in the one of the treemap and set diagram and to visually depict a relative significance of each tag of the plurality of tags based on the tag significance data; and
wherein a first characteristic of indicia for sibling tag subsets in the hierarchy of tags is different from a second characteristic of indicia for a corresponding parent subset.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the visual representation further comprises depicting the relative significance of each tag of the plurality of tags by adjusting one of a size, a shape, a style, or a color of each of the plurality of indicia.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a group of sibling subsets in the set diagram is further spatially arranged to form a facet diagram.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein one of the first characteristic or the second characteristic comprises a boundary line.

5. A system comprising:
a processor of a computing device and the processor being coupled to other components of the computing device and wherein the computing device comprises a communication interface; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a processor via a communication interface, a tag request;
obtaining, from the tag request, tag metadata for a plurality of tags generated during a live media event, the plurality of tags being associated with the live media event and wherein the tag metadata is responsive to the tag request;
organizing the plurality of tags into a hierarchy of tags based on a sorting criteria of the tag metadata, the hierarchy of tags comprising a first level of tags, a second level of tags below the first level of tags, and a third level of tags below the second level of tags, wherein the first level of tags represents temporal segments of the live media event, wherein the second level of tags represents speakers associated with the live media event, wherein the third level of tags represents discussion topics associated with the live media event, and wherein at least one tag occurs in two or more locations in the hierarchy of tags;
computing tag significance data for the hierarchy of tags based, at least in part, on the tag metadata and wherein the tag significance data for a tag comprises at least one of a frequency of use of the tag, a duration of a media segment associated with the tag, and a similarity measure of the tag; and
generating, for presentation by a user terminal coupled to the processor, a visual representation of the hierarchy of tags, wherein a plurality of indicia for the hierarchy of tags are spatially arranged to visually depict a relative significance of each tag of the plurality of tags based on the tag significance data.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the instructions to cause the processor to perform generating the visual representation further comprises instructions to cause the processor to perform depicting the relative significance of each tag of the plurality of tags by adjusting one of a size, a shape, a style, or a color of each of the plurality of indicia.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the processor to perform spatially arranging the plurality of indicia to form a treemap of the plurality of indicia, wherein sibling tags of the hierarchy of tags are represented by sibling nodes in the treemap.

8. The system of claim 5 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the processor to perform spatially arranging the plurality of indicia to form a set diagram of the plurality of indicia, wherein each group of sibling tags in the hierarchy of tags defines a group of sibling subsets for the set diagram.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the group of sibling subsets in the set diagram is further spatially arranged to form a nested facet diagram.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein a first characteristic of indicia for the group of sibling subsets is different from a second characteristic of indicia for a corresponding parent subset.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein one of the first or second characteristic comprises a set outline.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, the processor comprising a portion of a computing device and coupled with components of the computing device, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by the processor via a communication interface, a tag request;
receiving, from the tag request, tag metadata for a plurality of tags generated during a live media event, the plurality of tags being associated with the live media event and wherein the tag metadata is responsive to the tag request;
organizing the plurality of tags into a hierarchy of tags based on a sorting criteria of the tag metadata, the hierarchy of tags comprising a first level of tags and a second level of tags, the second level of tags being below the first level of tags, and a third level of tags below the second level of tags, wherein the first level of tags represents temporal segments of the live media event, wherein the second level of tags represents speakers associated with the live media event, wherein the third level of tags represents discussion topics associated with the live media event, and wherein at least one tag occurs in two or more locations in the hierarchy of tags;
computing tag significance data for the hierarchy of tags based, at least in part, on the tag metadata and wherein the tag significance data for a tag comprises at least one of a frequency of use of the tag, a duration of a media segment associated with the tag, and a similarity measure of the tag; and
generating a visual representation, for presentation by a user terminal coupled to the processor, of the hierarchy of tags, wherein a plurality of indicia for the hierarchy of tags are spatially arranged to visually depict a relative s

Assignees

• John Ajita
• Kelkar Shreeharsh
• Seligmann Doree Duncan
• Avaya Inc

Inventors

• John Ajita
• Kelkar Shreeharsh
• Seligmann Doree Duncan

Classifications

• G06F16/958 Primary

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