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Granted Patent B2
US 10,171,845 · App. 15/936,498 · Granted Jan 1, 2019

Video segment manager and video sharing accounts for activities performed by a user on social media

Inventors: Inseok Hwang (Austin, TX); Su Liu (Austin, TX); Eric J. Rozner (Austin, TX); Chin Ngai Sze (Austin, TX)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H04N21/23424G06K9/00718G06K9/00765H04N21/23418H04N21/252H04N21/25891H04N21/44204H04N21/4532H04N21/4667H04N21/84
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Patent No.
US 10,171,845
App. No.
15/936,498
Granted
Jan 1, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method includes identifying a plurality of user-interested multimedia files based at on one of a history of a plurality of user multimedia searches, a plurality of user multimedia views, or a history of multimedia sharing with other users. The method creates a catalog of the plurality of user-interested multimedia files, wherein the catalog includes one of more groups of the plurality of multimedia files based on one of a multimedia file length, the history of the plurality of user multimedia searches, the plurality of user multimedia views, or a history of multimedia shares with other users. The method generates a novel multimedia file, where combining one generates the novel multimedia file or more individual multimedia files selected from the catalog of multimedia files.

Claims (15)

1. A computer program product comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:

program instructions to identify a plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to a user based on historical activity of the user viewing multimedia files, wherein multimedia files of interest are determined based on metadata stored on one or more databases;

program instructions to determine a ranking of individual multimedia files within the plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to the user based upon an algorithm for generating a novel multimedia file, wherein determining further comprises using a criterion for each of the plurality of the user interested multimedia files;

program instructions to create a catalog of the identified plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to the user, wherein the catalog includes the identified plurality of multimedia files organized into one or more groups of multimedia files based on user preferences and characteristics of the multimedia files;

program instructions to analyze a plurality of catalogs that include multimedia files that are of interest to the user based upon an algorithm, wherein the plurality of catalogs includes the created catalog of the identified plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to the user;

program instructions to select one or more multimedia file segments from the catalog of the identified plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to the user;

program instructions to, responsive to receiving, from the user, a selection of one or more multimedia file frames from the plurality of catalogs that include multimedia files that are of interest to the user, determine a similarity value for the selected one or more multimedia file frames according to the algorithm;

program instructions to generate the novel multimedia file, wherein the novel multimedia file is generated by combining the selected one or more multimedia file segments;

sending, by one or more processors, the one or more novel multimedia file frames to another user;

program instructions to determine an order for the plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to the user according to user preferences associated with the user, wherein the user preferences dictate a truncation of user interested multimedia file frames comprising the plurality of multimedia files that are of interest to the user;

program instructions to truncate a user interested multimedia file according to user preferences, program instructions to display the truncated user interested multimedia file frames, wherein displaying further comprises presenting a searchable index of a plurality of novel multimedia files;

program instructions to, responsive to displaying the novel multimedia file, identify one or more novel multimedia file frames included in the novel multimedia file of interest to the user;

program instructions to send the one or more novel multimedia file frames to another user; and

program instructions to update user preferences information of an inputted keyword by the user, a description in one of the plurality of user interested multimedia files, and a user profile associated with the user in another application.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2018
From: HWANG, INSEOK; LIU, SU; ROZNER, ERIC J.; SZE, CHIN NGAI
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
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Continuity (3)
Continuation 15722056 · Oct 2, 2017
Continuation 15409665 · Jan 19, 2017
Related Publication 20180205979A1 · Jul 19, 2018
Cited By (1)
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