Time-marked hyperlinking to video content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990692-B2
Application number	US-41211209-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2009
Priority date	Mar 26, 2009
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

In one example, a method includes: receiving from a first user interface a first input from a first user specifying a first particular instant in a video other than a beginning of the video; in response to the first input, generating by one or more computer systems first data for inclusion in a link to the video, the first data representing the first particular instant in the video and being operable automatically to direct playback of the video at a second user interface to start at the first particular instant in the video in response to a second user selecting the link at the second user interface; and communicating the first data to a link generator for inclusion in the link to the video.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
storing at a server, an audio index comprising a plurality of mappings between indexed time locations within a video and text data derived from a transcription of audio corresponding to the indexed time locations within the video;
transmitting to a client, the video for display in a video player interface of a client display, the video player interface including a playbar having a slider indicating a current playback position of the vi…

Assignees

• Chelba Ciprian I
• Google Inc

Inventors

• Chelba Ciprian I

Classifications

• H04N5/44591 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/47214

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/47217

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/765 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/8455

  Electricity · mapped topic