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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2011
Applicant:

Matthew Berry, Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventor:

Matthew Berry, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:

TIVO SOLUTIONS INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/71 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); G06F 16/78 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/71 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); G06F 16/489 (2019.01); G06F 16/7867 (2019.01);
Abstract

A system and method for navigating digital media assets including a navigation system configured to receive a search query in response to a user input and process the search query by applying the search query to a search index of digital media asset conventional and time-based metadata and determining search results of titles of and start points in time within digital media assets that satisfy the search query. The navigation system may then display the search results to the user through the user interface. The search results may be displayed in a hierarchical format, wherein the title of the digital media asset is displayed and upon selecting the title of the digital media asset, the start points in time within that digital media asset are displayed or played as a video to the user through the user interface.


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