Facilitating video search
View Patent ↗A method of facilitating video search is disclosed. A video on or linked to by a display page is located. A video search index entry associated with the video is generated, at least in part, using an additional information data, retrieved at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page.
1. A method comprising:
locating a video associated with a display page;
locating a video data associated with the video;
matching the video to a unique event;
retrieving at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event;
generating a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data;
augmenting the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and
using a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.
2. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising building the weighting equation.
3. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the video data comprises one or more of a video content data, a metadata, a filename, and a description text associated with the video.
4. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising using the video search index entry to determine that the video is responsive to a query.
5. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein matching comprises classifying the video based on one or more of the following attributes: genre, source, episode, season, date, event date, air date, release date, and participant.
6. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein augmenting comprises:
using the additional information data to classify the video;
using the classification to retrieve other information associated with the video; and
using said other information to augment the video search index entry.
7. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the additional information data is obtained from a first source and augmenting comprises using the additional information data to find other information from a second source.
8. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein retrieving comprises querying a database.
9. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein retrieving comprises querying an episode database or a movie database.
10. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein weighting comprises weighting additional information data less heavily than matches based on an original video description and/or other video data.
11. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising learning an association between videos from a first source and further information available from a second source.
12. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising learning an association between videos from a first source and further information available from a second source, using human validation and tuning.
13. A system of facilitating video search, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to:
locate a video associated with a display page;
locate a video data associated with the video;
match the video to a unique event;
retrieve at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event;
generate a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data;
augment the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and
use a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.
14. A computer program product for facilitating video search, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
locating a video associated with a display page;
locating a video data associated with the video;
matching the video to a unique event;
retrieving at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event;
generating a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data;
augmenting the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and
using a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.