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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Eugene Chuan-huai Wei, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Varun Narang, Pittsford, NY (US);
Zhibing Wang, Beijing, CN;
Yuming Liang, Beijing, CN;
Xin Jin, Beijing, CN;
Ting-hao Yang, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Feng, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Cheng-min Lin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eugene Chuan-Huai Wei, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Varun Narang, Pittsford, NY (US);
Zhibing Wang, Beijing, CN;
Yuming Liang, Beijing, CN;
Xin Jin, Beijing, CN;
Ting-hao Yang, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Feng, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Cheng-min Lin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hulu LLC, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for navigating a media program via a searchable transcript of the dialog of the media program is disclosed. In one embodiment, a textural transcript of the dialog is generated, wherein the textural transcript comprising a plurality of portions wherein each portion is associated with a segment of the media program, a command is accepted to display the transcript and in response to that command, user interface data is transmitted to the client computer for presentation in a user interface, wherein the user interface comprising a concurrently presented media program player and the textural transcript.