Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS REGARDING RECEIPT OF AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT INFORMATION AND USE OF SUCH INFORMATION TO AUTOMATICALLY INFER A RELATIVE POPULARITY OF THAT CONTENT
- Patent Title (中): 关于收到视听内容信息和使用这些信息自动传播相关内容的方法和设备
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Application No.: PCT/US2008086929Application Date: 2008-12-16
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Publication No.: WO2009085729A4Publication Date: 2009-10-29
- Inventor: HOROZOV TZVETAN T , IRANI DANESH S , MHATRE SWAPNIL E , NARASIMHAN NITYA , VASUDEVAN VENUGOPAL , WODKA JOSEPH F
- Applicant: MOTOROLA INC , HOROZOV TZVETAN T , IRANI DANESH S , MHATRE SWAPNIL E , NARASIMHAN NITYA , VASUDEVAN VENUGOPAL , WODKA JOSEPH F
- Assignee: MOTOROLA INC,HOROZOV TZVETAN T,IRANI DANESH S,MHATRE SWAPNIL E,NARASIMHAN NITYA,VASUDEVAN VENUGOPAL,WODKA JOSEPH F
- Current Assignee: MOTOROLA INC,HOROZOV TZVETAN T,IRANI DANESH S,MHATRE SWAPNIL E,NARASIMHAN NITYA,VASUDEVAN VENUGOPAL,WODKA JOSEPH F
- Priority: US96584307 2007-12-28
- Main IPC: H04N7/08
- IPC: H04N7/08 ; H04N5/445 ; H04N5/60
Abstract:
A network element (200) receives (101), from a plurality of different end users (205), information regarding content clips as pertain to audio-visual content and uses (102) that information to automatically infer a relative popularity of audio-visual content as corresponds to the content clips to provide popularity information. Such audio-visual content can comprise, for example, televised content. The aforementioned information can comprise, for example, such items as a start time and a stop time for a given one of the content clips, at least a portion of a given one of the content clips, a content identifier of some kind, and so forth.
Information query