A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims benefit of the following co-pending U.S. Provisional Applications:
1) Method and Apparatus for Processing Context and Content of Multimedia Files When Creating Searchable Indices of Multimedia Content on Large, Distributed Networks; Ser. No.: 60/018,312; Filed: May 24, 1996;
2) Method and Apparatus for Display of Results of a Search Queries for Multimedia Files; Ser. No.: 60/018,311; Filed: May 24, 1996;
3) Method for Increasing Overall Performance of Obtaining Search Results When Searching on a Large, Distributed Database By Prioritizing Database Segments to be Searched; Ser. No.: 60/018,238; Filed: May 24, 1996;
4) Method for Processing Audio Files to Compute Estimates of Music-Speech Content and Volume Levels to Enable Enhanced Searching of Multimedia Databases; Ser. No.: 60/021,452; Filed: Jul. 10, 1996;
5) Method for Searching for Copyrighted Works on Large, Distributed Networks; Ser. No.: 60/021,515; Filed: Jul. 10, 1996;
6) Method for Processing Video Files to Compute Estimates of Motion Content, Brightness, Contrast and Color to Enable Enhanced Searching of Multimedia Databases; Ser. No.: 60/021,517; Filed: Jul. 10, 1996;
7) Method and Apparatus for Displaying Results of Search Queries for Multimedia Files; Ser. No.: 60/021,466; Filed: Jul. 10, 1996;
8) A Method for Indexing Stored Streaming Multimedia Content When Creating Searchable Indices of Multimedia Content on Large, Distributed Networks; Ser. No.: 60/023,634; Filed: Aug. 9, 1996;
9) An Algorithm for Exploiting Lexical Proximity When Performing Searches of Multimedia Content on Large, Distributed Networks; Ser. No.: 60/023,633; Filed: Aug. 9, 1996;
10) A Method for Synthesizing Descriptive Summaries of Media Content When Creating Searchable Indices of Multimedia Content on Large, Distributed Networks; Ser. No.: 60/023,836; Filed: Aug. 12, 1996.
A method and apparatus are provided for encoding a spoken language. The method includes the steps recognizing a verbal content of the spoken language, measuring an attribute of the recognized verbal content and encoding the recognized and measured verbal content.
A single file, such as an HTML document, is logically divided into multiple articles that can be individually recognized and ranked by search engines. The segmentation of a document into separate articles is based upon tokens that are used in document mark-up languages. In addition to the tokens which delineate articles from one another, additional tokens, or tags, are used to create a named location for each article, so that a browser can immediately display an article within a document that is relevant to a search query.
The present invention extends a standard HTML browser to support a new data type, the Uniform Resource Locator Sequence (URLS). The URLS consists of a header and a sequence of URLs. The method of the present invention receives the URLS data then sequentially accesses the data of each URL comprising the URLS, obtains statistics on the response time to the requests for URLs, and times the calls for subsequent URLs in the sequence accordingly so that the arrival of the linked data nearly simulates actual streaming.
A system and method for indexing multimedia files utilizes audio characteristics of predefined audio content contained in selected multimedia segments of the multimedia files to distinguish the selected multimedia segments. In the exemplary embodiment, the predefined audio content is speech contained in video segments of video files. Furthermore, the audio characteristics are speaker characteristics. The speech-containing video segments are detected by analyzing the audio contents of the video files. The audio contents of the speech-containing video segments are then characterized to distinguish the video segments according to speakers. The indexing of speech-containing video segments based on speakers allows users to selectively access video segments that contain speech from a particular speaker without having to manually search all the speech-containing video segments.
A method and system for transferring offline browsing content information of a wide area network from a host computer to a mobile device includes connecting the mobile device to the host computer and obtaining characteristic information of the mobile device pertaining to at least one of hardware and software capabilities of the mobile device. The content information is transferred from the host computer to the mobile device as a function of the characteristic information.
