公开(公告)号：US07401121B2

公开(公告)日：2008-07-15

申请号：US11464081

申请日：2006-08-11

申请人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Craig J. Mundie

发明人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Craig J. Mundie

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04H60/73 ,  H04H20/93 ,  H04L12/1831 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/26 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A system and method are disclosed which enable a user to locate target data from a temporal broadcast of data. The system includes a transportable identifier that represents the target data. The identifier further includes metadata that provides sufficient information about the broadcast of the target data such that the target data can be acquired when broadcast. The transportable identifier further may be sent to one or more other users to enable such users to locate the broadcast of the target data. As a result, one or more users may employ identifiers to locate the broadcast of the target data and, in turn, monitor and/or store the target data from the temporal broadcast.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种使得用户能够从数据的时间广播定位目标数据的系统和方法。 系统包括表示目标数据的可移动标识符。 标识符还包括提供关于目标数据的广播的足够信息的元数据，使得可以在广播时获取目标数据。 可传送标识符还可以发送到一个或多个其他用户，以使得这些用户能够定位目标数据的广播。 结果，一个或多个用户可以使用标识符来定位目标数据的广播，并且依次从时间广播监视和/或存储目标数据。

公开(公告)号：US07099952B2

公开(公告)日：2006-08-29

申请号：US09894327

申请日：2001-06-28

申请人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Craig J. Mundie

发明人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Craig J. Mundie

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04H60/73 ,  H04H20/93 ,  H04L12/1831 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/26 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： A system and method are disclosed which enable a user to locate target data from a temporal broadcast of data. The system includes a transportable identifier that represents the target data. The identifier further includes metadata that provides sufficient information about the broadcast of the target data such that the target data can be acquired when broadcast. The transportable identifier further may be sent to one or more other users to enable such users to locate the broadcast of the target data. As a result, one or more users may employ identifiers to locate the broadcast of the target data and, in turn, monitor and/or store the target data from the temporal broadcast.

公开(公告)号：US08205172B2

公开(公告)日：2012-06-19

申请号：US11097720

申请日：2005-03-31

申请人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steve C. Glenner ,  Steven M. Drucker

发明人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steve C. Glenner ,  Steven M. Drucker

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F17/30884

摘要： The present subject matter describes a graphical web browser toolbar the stores visual representations of user-selected web pages. A saved page is included in the toolbar as a tile that shows a thumbnail image of at least a portion of the page. A user may customize the thumbnail image by zooming onto an area of the page. The user selects a tile from the toolbar to show an enlarged version of the thumbnail image with data from the web page, such as a link to the web page. A comments section allows a user to enter comments related to the web page into the tile. Tiles may be arranged according to groups as configured by the user. The toolbar may be stored and transmitted to a remote location. Using the described techniques, a web shopper can save images in a graphical toolbar and send items saved therein to an acquaintance.

摘要翻译： 本主题描述了图形网络浏览器工具栏，其存储用户选择的网页的视觉表示。 保存的页面被包括在工具栏中，作为显示页面的至少一部分的缩略图的瓦片。 用户可以通过缩放到页面的区域来自定义缩略图图像。 用户从工具栏中选择一个瓦片，以显示具有来自网页的数据的缩略图像的放大版本，例如到网页的链接。 评论部分允许用户将有关网页的评论输入到图块中。 可以根据用户配置的组来布置瓦片。 工具栏可以存储并发送到远程位置。 使用所描述的技术，网络购物者可以将图像保存在图形工具栏中，并将保存在其中的项目发送给熟人。

公开(公告)号：US07769832B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-03

申请号：US11539963

申请日：2006-10-10

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06F17/30029 ,  G06F17/30058 ,  G06F17/30873

摘要： A system and method facilitating media browsing is provided. The invention includes a browsing component and a media display system that provides a focus media and related media. The focus media and the related media are associated based, at least in part, upon metadata. The invention further provides for an association identifier that identifies related media based, at least in part, upon metadata associated with the focus media and the related media. The association identifier can further cluster the related media based upon metadata associated with the related media.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种促进媒体浏览的系统和方法。 本发明包括提供聚焦媒体和相关媒体的浏览组件和媒体显示系统。 焦点媒体和相关媒体至少部分地基于元数据。 本发明还提供了至少部分地基于与聚焦媒体和相关媒体相关联的元数据来识别相关媒体的关联标识符。 关联标识符可以基于与相关媒体相关联的元数据进一步聚集相关媒体。

公开(公告)号：US07725829B1

公开(公告)日：2010-05-25

申请号：US11009115

申请日：2004-12-10

申请人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Kentaro Toyama

发明人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker ,  Kentaro Toyama

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G11B27/105 ,  G06F17/30053

摘要： A system and method for facilitating non-linear viewing of media is provided. The system facilitates non-linear viewing of media by providing a scene selector that scans a digitized media and selects a scene in the digitized media and a metadata generator that produces metadata associated with the scenes and relates the metadata to the selected scene. With the scenes annotated with metadata, a playlist generator can generate a playlist of related scenes based on user inputs like queries and a playlist updater can adapt the playlist based on user reaction to the displayed scenes. The scenes can be displayed on a variety of devices exhibiting various levels of intelligence. The displays can be distributed as can the system.

公开(公告)号：US07120619B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-10

申请号：US10420414

申请日：2003-04-22

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/3002 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  G06F17/30058

摘要： The present invention provides a unique method and user interface that facilitates accessing and browsing objects in which a user begins with a center object (e.g., one or a few focal objects) displayed on a screen and related objects are populated on the screen as well. The related objects can be further organized into clusters whereby each cluster or grouping of objects expands on a particular attribute of the center object. The attributes correspond to metadata. Thus, the objects are populated based upon the metadata of the center object. According to one aspect, the user can access one or more specific objects having a plurality of attributes and then relax at least one of the attributes to see what other objects share at least one attribute with the center object. According to another aspect, the object having the closest match to a search request can be centrally displayed with other close matches arranged by their respective metadata.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的方法和用户界面，其便于访问和浏览用户以屏幕上显示的中心对象（例如，一个或几个焦点对象）开始的对象，并且相关对象也被填充在屏幕上。 可以将相关对象进一步组织成群集，由此每个群集或对象组在中心对象的特定属性上展开。 属性对应于元数据。 因此，基于中心对象的元数据填充对象。 根据一个方面，用户可以访问具有多个属性的一个或多个特定对象，然后放松至少一个属性，以查看哪些其他对象与中心对象共享至少一个属性。 根据另一方面，具有与搜索请求最匹配的对象可以通过其各自的元数据排列的其他紧密匹配集中显示。

公开(公告)号：US07117453B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-03

申请号：US10348122

申请日：2003-01-21

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steve Glenner ,  Asta L. Glatzer ,  Steven D. DeMar

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steve Glenner ,  Asta L. Glatzer ,  Steven D. DeMar

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30011 ,  G06F17/30274 ,  G06F17/30749 ,  G06F17/30775 ,  G06F17/30817 ,  G06F17/30849 ,  Y10S715/974

摘要： The present invention provides a unique system and method for facilitating browsing, sorting, clustering, and filtering any number of media objects grouped together in a quick and easy manner. In particular, the invention involves annotating the media objects, which have been clustered, sorted, and/or filtered en masse rather than individually, with metadata. The media objects may be selected by a user and annotated with a plurality of metadata as desired by a user in order to optimize utilization of the media objects. The media objects may also be combined and/or mixed in any number of ways to create new media objects. Media objects may include an audio component, a visual component, a portion thereof, and/or any combination thereof.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的系统和方法，用于以快速和容易的方式便于浏览，排序，聚类和过滤分组在一起的任何数量的媒体对象。 特别地，本发明涉及通过元数据来集成，排序和/或过滤集成，排序和/或过滤的媒体对象而不是单独地注释。 可以由用户选择媒体对象并且用用户期望的多个元数据注释，以便优化媒体对象的利用。 媒体对象也可以以任何数量的方式组合和/或混合以创建新的媒体对象。 媒体对象可以包括音频组件，视觉组件，其一部分和/或其任何组合。

公开(公告)号：US07383497B2

公开(公告)日：2008-06-03

申请号：US10348277

申请日：2003-01-21

申请人： Steve Glenner ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker

发明人： Steve Glenner ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30017

摘要： The present invention provides a unique system and method for facilitating browsing, sorting, clustering, and filtering any number of media objects grouped together in a quick and easy manner. In particular, the invention involves annotating the media objects, which have been clustered, sorted, and/or filtered en masse rather than individually, with metadata. The media objects may be selected by a user and annotated with a plurality of metadata as desired by a user in order to optimize utilization of the media objects. The media objects may also be combined and/or mixed in any number of ways to create new media objects. Media objects may include an audio component, a visual component, a portion thereof, and/or any combination thereof.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的系统和方法，用于以快速和容易的方式便于浏览，排序，聚类和过滤分组在一起的任何数量的媒体对象。 特别地，本发明涉及通过元数据来集成，排序和/或过滤集成，排序和/或过滤的媒体对象而不是单独地注释。 可以由用户选择媒体对象并且用用户期望的多个元数据注释，以便优化媒体对象的利用。 媒体对象也可以以任何数量的方式组合和/或混合以创建新的媒体对象。 媒体对象可以包括音频组件，视觉组件，其一部分和/或其任何组合。

公开(公告)号：US07251790B1

公开(公告)日：2007-07-31

申请号：US10055539

申请日：2002-01-23

申请人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer ,  Steven Douglas De Mar

发明人： Steven M. Drucker ,  Curtis G. Wong ,  Asta L. Glatzer ,  Steven Douglas De Mar

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F17/30849 ,  G06F17/30899

摘要： A system and method facilitating media browsing is provided. The invention includes a media delivery system adapted to provide media and thumbnail image(s) to a media display component. The invention further provides for a media delivery system to include a media analyzer, a thumbnail generator and a media player. The media analyzer can analyze content of media that the thumbnail generator can utilize in generating thumbnail image(s).

摘要翻译： 提供了一种促进媒体浏览的系统和方法。 本发明包括适于向媒体显示组件提供媒体和缩略图的介质递送系统。 本发明还提供了一种媒体传送系统，其包括媒体分析器，缩略图生成器和媒体播放器。 媒体分析器可以分析缩略图生成器可以在生成缩略图中使用的媒体的内容。

公开(公告)号：US08707366B2

公开(公告)日：2014-04-22

申请号：US12684763

申请日：2010-01-08

申请人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker

发明人： Curtis G. Wong ,  Steven M. Drucker

IPC分类号： H04N7/16 ,  H04N5/445 ,  G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： H04N9/79 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N5/44591 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N21/21 ,  H04N21/23 ,  H04N21/4227 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/43622 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/482

摘要： A system and method are disclosed for providing program criteria representing a plurality of audio and/or visual programs. A plurality of tokens are stored in a database of one or more computers, each token having an identifier for identifying a predetermined audio and/or visual program. Each token may be a universal program identifier that represents a specific program in a global programming environment (e.g., the token may identify a program across multiple tuning spaces). Alternatively or additionally, a token may be a tuning-space specific program identifier that represents program criteria associated with a specific program for particular tuning space. The server is programmed to provide at least one token to a remote computer based on selection criteria.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于提供表示多个音频和/或视觉节目的节目标准的系统和方法。 多个令牌存储在一个或多个计算机的数据库中，每个令牌具有用于识别预定音频和/或视觉节目的标识符。 每个令牌可以是表示全局编程环境中的特定程序的通用程序标识符（例如，令牌可以标识跨多个调整空间的程序）。 或者或另外，令牌可以是表示与用于特定调谐空间的特定程序相关联的程序标准的调谐空间特定程序标识符。 服务器被编程为基于选择标准向远程计算机提供至少一个令牌。