Methods and systems for identifying a media program clip associated with a trending topic

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9628873-B2
Application number	US-201414478156-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2014
Priority date	Sep 5, 2014
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

An exemplary method of identifying a media program clip associated with a trending topic includes receiving a plurality of media content streams representative of a plurality of media programs, detecting, while the media content streams are being received, caption data included in the media content streams and associated with the media programs, identifying, based on the detected caption data, a trending topic associated with the plurality of media programs, and identifying a media program clip associated with the trending topic. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a media content trend analysis system comprising at least one physical processor, a plurality of media content streams representative of a plurality of media programs;
detecting, by the media content trend analysis system during the receiving of the plurality of media content streams, caption data included in the plurality of media content streams and associated with the plurality of media programs;
identifying, by the media content trend analysis system based on the detected caption data, a trending topic; and
identifying, by the media content trend analysis system, a media program clip associated with the trending topic, the identifying of the media program clip associated with the trending topic comprising:
detecting, within caption data included in a media content stream representative of a media program, one or more keywords associated with the trending topic,
identifying, within the media content stream based on the detected one or more keywords, a first timestamp corresponding to the one or more keywords associated with the trending topic and a second timestamp corresponding to the one or more keywords associated with the trending topic,
determining a start timestamp based on the first timestamp and an end timestamp based on the second timestamp, and
designating a portion of the media content stream defined by the start timestamp and the end timestamp as the media program clip associated with the trending topic.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying of the media program clip associated with the trending topic further comprises modifying at least one of the start timestamp and the end timestamp to a different point in the media content stream, the different point associated with at least one of a scene change, a hard cut, a fade-in, a fade-out, an audio gap, a video gap, and an advertising break in the media content stream.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content stream is included in the plurality of media content streams.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content stream is received prior to the receiving of the plurality of media content streams.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content stream is received subsequent to the receiving of the plurality of media content streams.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
recording, by a media content processing device, the media program clip to at least one of a local storage facility associated with the media content processing device and a network storage facility.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the media program clip includes a first portion of a media program and excludes a second portion of the media program;
the first portion of the media program is associated with the trending topic; and
the second portion of the media program is not associated with the trending topic.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving of the plurality of media content streams comprises receiving the plurality of media content streams by way of a plurality of media content channels while the media programs are being broadcast.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying of the trending topic comprises:
detecting one or more keywords included in the caption data; and
identifying the trending topic based on the one or more keywords;
wherein the one or more keywords are each associated with a timestamp within a predetermined time range of a current time associated with the receiving of the plurality of media content streams.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the identifying of the trending topic based on the set of keywords is performed in accordance with at least one of keyword frequency counting, keyword clustering, and a topic detection model.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the detecting of the one or more keywords includes removing one or more noise words from the caption data to obtain the keywords.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the media content trend analysis system, one or more filter rules;
wherein the identifying of the trending topic is further performed in accordance with the one or more filter rules.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising recommending, by the media content trend analysis system, the media program clip for access by a user of a media content processing device.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the recommending of the media program clip comprises providing, for display by the media content processing device, a graphical user interface including a display element representative of the media content clip.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the graphical user interface further includes a selectable option for initiating a presentation of the media program clip by way of the media content processing device.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the recommending of the media program clip includes providing, for display by the media content processing device, a notification of a current broadcast of the media program clip.

17. The method of claim 1 , embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

18. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a media content trend analysis system comprising at least one physical processor, a first set of media content streams representative of a first set of media programs;
recording, by the media content trend analysis system, the first set of media content streams;
receiving, by the media content trend analysis system, a second set of media content streams representative of a second set of media programs;
detecting, by the media content trend analysis system during the receiving of the second set of media content streams, caption data included in the second set of media content streams and associated with the second set of media programs;
identifying, by the media content trend analysis system based on the detected caption data, a trending topic; and
identifying, by the media content trend analysis system, a media program clip associated with the trending topic and included in the first set of media programs, the identifying of the media program clip associated with the trending topic comprising:
detecting, within caption data included in a media content stream representative of a media program and included in the first set of media content streams, one or more keywords associated with the trending topic,
identifying, within the media content stream based on the detected one or more keywords, a first timestamp corresponding to the one or more keywords associated with the trending topic and a second timestamp corresponding to the one or more keywords associated with the trending topic,
determining a start timestamp based on the first timestamp and an end timestamp based on the second timestamp, and
designating a portion of the media content stream defined by the start timestamp and the end timestamp as the media program clip associated with the trending topic.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the recording of the first set of media content streams comprises recording the first set of media content streams to a cloud-based digital video recording (“DVR”) device.

20. The method of claim 18 , further comprising recommending, by the media content trend analysis system, the media program clip associated with the trending topic for access by a user of a media content processing device.

21. A system comprising:
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Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Hu Si Ying Diana
• Medapati Suri B

Classifications

• G06F16/2322

  using timestamps · CPC title

• G06F16/48

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

• H04N21/8405

  represented by keywords · CPC title

• H04N5/765

  Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus · CPC title

• H04N21/8549

  Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer {(retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739)} · CPC title