Virtual Clip Annotation for Playable Media Files
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack effective methods for sharing and annotating content within social networks, particularly for playable media files, which limits user interaction and collaboration.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for managing playable media files that allows users to create, share, and annotate virtual clips, set bookmarks, and associate taxonomy tags, enabling interactive and collaborative content management through a graphical user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users can create and annotate virtual clips for playable media files, then user interaction and collaboration are enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the playable media file into multiple virtual clips, each with specific time ranges and associated annotations. This allows users to interact with specific portions of media rather than the entire file, enhancing interaction capability while managing complexity through modular organization of content and metadata.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension to media interaction by introducing time-range markers and sequential clip structures. Annotations are layered as additional metadata dimensions on top of the base media file, allowing rich interaction without fundamentally complicating the core media storage structure.
2Loss of information
If multiple annotations and taxonomy tags are associated with virtual clips, then content management and accessibility are improved, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates lightweight copy references to annotations and taxonomy tags rather than storing multiple full copies of media content. Each virtual clip contains references to annotation identifiers and tag structures, reducing data redundancy and processing requirements while maintaining full accessibility to content metadata.
3Ease of operation
If the system displays multiple virtual clips with annotations on a timeline, then user navigation and content discovery are enhanced, but interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a timeline view as an intermediary interface layer between the user and the underlying media file structure. The timeline visually represents virtual clips and annotations in a simplified temporal sequence, allowing users to navigate and discover content without directly interacting with complex data structures or metadata relationships.
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AI summary
A method and system for annotating playable media files is provided. A virtual clip is associated with first and second locations in the playable media file. The first and second locations together define a clip of the playable media file occurring between the first and second locations. The clip is displayed on a computing device of a user and a first user input associated with the virtual clip is received. The first user input is determined to conform to a predetermined format defining taxonomy tags. One or more taxonomy tags are identified from the user input and the virtual clip is associated, in an account of the user, with each of the one or more taxonomy tags identified from the user input.