Comcast Interactive Media, LLC

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Leslie Eugene Chipman

Oliver Jojic

David F Houghton

Geetu Ambwani

Evelyne Tzoukermann

Bageshree Shevade

Anthony R Davis

Ryan M Farrell

Hongzhong Zhou

Vladimir Kronrod

Amit Bagga

Scot Gregory Zola

Jenny Jiang

Anita Eradla

Hongzhon Zhou

Methods, systems, computer readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing event messages to a user. The event messages may include video data or a link to video of the event. In some variations, a user or content provider may define criteria for the event messages that are to be displayed to the user. The event messages may be stored so that a user may be able to browse through the stored event messages and decide when to view the video of the event. Upon a user's selection of the event message, the video of the event may be displayed to the user on the same display device or another display device.

Content event messaging

Aspects described herein relate to identifying media items relevant to a selected subject matter including, for example, determining the subject matter of a first media item, which may comprise at least one of audio content or video content; determining the classification within an ontology of the subject matter of the first media item; analyzing the ontology to identify other subject matter related to the subject matter of the first media item; and performing a search for other media items relevant to the subject matter of the first media item as a function of at least the other related subject matter according to the ontology.

Searching for segments based on an ontology

The invention pertains to methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying media items relevant to a selected subject matter, the method comprising determining the subject matter of a first media item, the first media item comprising at least one of audio content and video content, determining the classification within an ontology of the subject matter of the first media item, analyzing the ontology to identify other subject matter related to the subject matter of the first media item, and performing a search for other media items relevant to the subject matter of the first media item as a function of at least the other related subject matter according to the ontology.

The invention pertains to methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying segments within a media item, the media segment including at least one of audio content and video content, comprising segmenting the media item into a plurality of segments as a function of subject matter, storing data identifying each segment and its subject matter, and organizing each segment within an ontology based on its subject matter.

Identification of segments within audio, video, and multimedia items

Method and apparatus for organizing segments of media assets and determining relevance of segments to a query

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Rockville, MD, United States of America

Leslie Eugene Chipman