Automatic image discovery and recommendation for displayed television content

A method and a system are provided that can automatically discover related images and recommend them. It uses images that occur on the same page or are taken by the same photographer for image discovery. The system can also use semantic relatedness for filtering images. Sentiment analysis can also be used for image ranking and photographer ranking.

Capturing information regarding an interaction to a database

Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for capturing information regarding an interaction to a database. A client device receives an indication of an interaction with the client device that satisfies a user-defined trigger. A user interface is provided to the client device having input controls capable of receiving one or more information items. The one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second data field regarding at least one entity associated with the interaction. The one or more information items may generate a custom object that is stored in a database of the on-demand database service. A profile object for the at least one entity may be generated based on an aggregation of the stored one or more items with attributes of the at least one entity.

Personalization of information content by monitoring network traffic

A home network system that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site external to the network. The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.

Personalization of information content by monitoring network traffic

A home network system (110, 160) that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network (160) is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus (110) are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site (107) external to the network (160). The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTION

Systems and methods for streaming video, interacting with video content, and sharing video content are disclosed herein. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. 1. A method of interacting with user content , comprising detecting an event;interacting with the event;collecting data on the event;creating one or more clips based on the event; andsharing the one or more clips.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:detecting the event comprises using audio fingerprinting.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein:the audio fingerprinting comprises background matching.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:detecting the event comprises using video fingerprinting.5. The method of ; wherein:interacting with the event comprises a user adding comments to the event.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:interacting with the event comprises added metadata to the event.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:collecting data comprises capturing audio events from the audio signal.8. The method of claim 1 , wherein:collecting data comprises capturing video events from the video signal.9. The method of ; wherein:creating one or more clips comprises provided one or more thumbnails representative of a video sequence.10. The method of ; wherein:creating one or more clips further comprises a user selecting one of the one or more thumbnails representative of a video sequence; andthe user framing a period of time to create the duration of the video clip.11. The method of claim 10 , wherein:creating one or more clips further comprises a user previewing the framed clip.12. A method of creating video content claim 10 , comprising:selecting one or more video clips based on selected criteria;gathering and organizing the one or more video clips; anddelivering the one or more video clips to a user.13. The method of claim 12 , wherein:the selected criteria comprises selecting videos based on historical data related to the habits of the user.14. The method of claim 12 , wherein:the selected criteria comprises ...

Personalization of information content by monitoring network traffic

A home network system (110, 160) that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network (160) is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus (110) are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site (107) external to the network (160). The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.

Automatic image discovery and recommendation for displayed television content

A method and system are provided that can automatically discover related images and recommend them. It uses images that occur on the same page or are taken by the same photographer for image discovery. The system can also use semantic relatedness for filtering images. Sentiment analysis can also be used for image ranking and photographer ranking.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTION

Systems and methods for streaming video, interacting with video content, and sharing video content are disclosed herein. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. 1. A method of interacting with user content , comprisingdetecting an event;interacting with the event;collecting data on the event;creating one or more clips based on the event; andsharing the one or more clips.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:detecting the event comprises using audio fingerprinting.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein:the audio fingerprinting comprises background matching.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:detecting the event comprises using video fingerprinting.5. The method of ; wherein:interacting with the event comprises a user adding comments to the event.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:interacting with the event comprises added metadata to the event.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:collecting data comprises capturing audio events from the audio signal.8. The method of claim 1 , wherein:collecting data comprises capturing video events from the video signal.9. The method of ; wherein:creating one or more clips comprises provided one or more thumbnails representative of a video sequence.10. The method of ; wherein:creating one or more clips further comprises a user selecting one of the one or more thumbnails representative of a video sequence; andthe user framing a period of time to create the duration of the video clip.11. The method of claim 10 , wherein:creating one or more clips further comprises a user previewing the framed clip.12. A method of creating video content claim 10 , comprising:selecting one or more video clips based on selected criteria;gathering and organizing the one or more video clips; anddelivering the one or more video clips to a user.13. The method of claim 12 , wherein:the selected criteria comprises selecting videos based on historical data related to the habits of the user.14. The method of claim 12 , wherein:the selected criteria comprises selecting ...

PERSONALIZATION OF INFORMATION CONTENT BY MONITORING NETWORK TRAFFIC

A home network system that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site external to the network. The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content. 1. A method comprising:monitoring data traffic at a gateway coupling between first and second data networks, said first data network including a first device having an input for receiving a control data for interactively operating with a second device on said second data network;analyzing said monitored data traffic to identify a more-frequently-accessed content provided by said second device and said control data indicating a network location of said more-frequently-accessed content to provide a first data indicating said more-frequently-accessed content and a second data indicating a way to access said more-frequently-accessed content; andsaid more-frequently-accessed content and said way to access said more-frequently-accessed content.2. The method of wherein:said more-frequently-accessed content is determined based upon said control data indicating a more-frequently-accessed data site.3. The method of wherein:said more-frequently-accessed content is determined based upon a more-frequently-accessed topic of content.4. The method of wherein:said first data network includes a local area network and said second data network includes a data network external to said local area network via said gateway.5. The method of wherein:said second data network includes the Internet.6. The method of wherein:said first device is coupled to said gateway wirelessly.7. The method of wherein:said first device is coupled to said gateway by a data connection cable.8. The method of wherein:said first ...

SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT BY EXPLOITING TOP-K PROCESSING

Proper representation of the meaning of texts is crucial to enhancing many data mining and information retrieval tasks, including clustering, computing semantic relatedness between texts, and searching. Representing of texts in the concept-space derived from Wikipedia has received growing attention recently, due to its comprehensiveness and expertise. This concept-based representation is capable of extracting semantic relatedness between texts that cannot be deduced with the bag of words model. A key obstacle, however, for using Wikipedia as a semantic interpreter is that the sheer size of the concepts derived from Wikipedia makes it hard to efficiently map texts into concept-space. An efficient algorithm is proved which is able to represent the meaning of a text by using the concepts that best match it. In particular, this approach first computes the approximate top- concepts that are most relevant to the given text. These concepts are then leverage to represent the meaning of the given text. 1. A method for performing semantic interpretation for keywords , the method comprising:obtaining one or more keywords for semantic interpretation;computing top-k concepts in a knowledge database for the one or more keywords; andmapping the one or keywords into a concept space using the top-k concepts.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of computing top-k concepts comprises the steps of:estimating the bounds on the number of input lines; andcomputing an expected score for a fully or partially unseen object.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obtaining one or more keywords for semantic interpretation comprises extracting keywords from close captioning data included with content.4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising processing concepts resulting from the mapping of the one or more keywords into the concept space.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the processing comprises ranking the concepts6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the processing comprises ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REWARDING USERS IN AN ON-DEMAND SYSTEM

The technology disclosed relates to tracking performance and initiatives of employees and providing real-time recognition for their successes and contributions through customizable recognition awards. In particular, it relates to automatically awarding recognition awards to an employee by evaluating the employee's current performance against progress features and exception features. The progress features indicate a progression of an individual across a work cycle and exception features indicate high performance of the individual during the work cycle. Thus the recognition awards are automatically awarded when the current performance of the employee evidences accomplishment of milestones or high performance. 1. A method , including:accessing a set of reports in a CRM system to identify historical performance data'analyzing the historical performance data for one or more historical performance criteria to extract progress features and exception features;periodically generating current performance data; and recognition awards are automatically awarded based on the progress features as the current performance data evidences accomplishment of milestones; and', 'recognition awards are automatically awarded based on the exception features as the current performance data evidences high performance., 'evaluating the current performance data against the progress features and the exception features and automatically issuing recognition awards to individuals based on the current performance data, wherein'}2. The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing the historical performance data to extract progress features includes automatically identifying at least one of:patterns of sequence of sales performance initiatives; andchanges to a sales process map in response to the sales performance initiatives.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing the historical performance data to extract exception features includes automatically identifying high performances by applying top ranking ...

Capturing information regarding an interaction to a database

Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for capturing information regarding an interaction to a database. A client device receives an indication of an interaction with the client device that satisfies a user-defined trigger. A user interface is provided to the client device having input controls capable of receiving one or more information items. The one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second data field regarding at least one entity associated with the interaction. The one or more information items may generate a custom object that is stored in a database of the on-demand database service. A profile object for the at least one entity may be generated based on an aggregation of the stored one or more items with attributes of the at least one entity.

Systems and methods for clipping video segments

Systems and methods for streaming video, interacting with video content, and sharing video content are disclosed herein. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.

BRANCHED NODES IN A WORKFLOW

Methods, systems, and devices for defining an action node series at a database system are described. In some examples, the workflow may include one or more nodes are associated with an action. When executed, the workflow may produce an outcome based on the occurrence of an event or parameter associated with the one or more nodes. In some examples, the workflow may include one or more branch nodes. A branch node may include logic such that, when the workflow is executed, the logic selects a particular workflow path that includes its own specific nodes. The path may be selected based on the occurrence of an event or a value of one or more parameters. Thus, when a workflow including one or more branch nodes is executed, the outcome of the workflow may be based on the occurrence of the event or the value of the parameter. 1. A method for defining an action node series at a database system , comprising:assigning a plurality of nodes to the action node series, wherein each node of the action node series corresponds to an action and a set of metadata associated with the action;defining at least one node of the action node series as a branch node, wherein the branch node defines a plurality of branches that each includes a subset of nodes, and wherein each node of the subset comprises at least one different action, at least one different set of metadata associated with a same action, or both, and wherein the branch node includes programed logic for selecting a branch of the action node series based at least in part on an occurrence of an event, a value of a parameter, or both; andexecuting the action node series on the database system, wherein an outcome of the action node series is based at least in part on the occurrence of the event or the value of the parameter.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:receiving information indicative of the occurrence of the event or the value of the parameter from a system that is separate from the database system.3. The method of ...

GESTURE BASED ADVERTISEMENT PROFILES FOR USERS

The present principles are directed to gesture based advertisement profiles for users. A system includes an advertisement reaction gesture capture device () for capturing an advertisement reaction gesture performed by a user responsive to a presentation of a currently presented advertisement. The system further includes a memory device () for storing the advertisement reaction gesture. 1. A system , comprising:a gesture capture device that captures an advertisement reaction gesture performed by a user, responsive to a presentation of a presented advertisement; anda memory device that stores the advertisement reaction gesture.2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a user identification device that identifies the user claim 1 , responsive to user identifying indicia provided by the user.3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the user identifying indicia comprises speech claim 2 , and the user identification device comprises at least one of a speech recognition system and a speaker recognition system to identify the user from the speech.4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the user identification device comprises an image capture device that identifies the user based on a comparison of a user identifying gesture made by the user to a database of user identifying gestures claim 2 , each of the user identifying gestures being unique to a respective one of a plurality of users.5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the user identification device comprises an image capture device that identifies the user based on a comparison of a captured image of the user to a database of user images.6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the user identification device and the gesture capture device are comprised in a single device comprising an image capture device.7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the gesture capture device comprises at least one of an image capture device claim 1 , a motion sensing device claim 1 , and a motion sensing device having image capture capabilities.8. A method ...

PERSONALIZATION OF INFORMATION CONTENT BY MONITORING NETWORK TRAFFIC

A home network system that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site external to the network. The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content. 1. A method comprising:monitoring data traffic at a gateway coupling between first and second data networks, said first data network including a first device having an input for receiving a control data for interactively operating with a second device on said second data network;analyzing said monitored data traffic to identify a more-frequently-accessed content provided by said second device and said control data indicating a network location of said more-frequently-accessed content to provide a first data indicating said more-frequently-accessed content and a second data indicating a way to access said more-frequently-accessed content; andselecting said more-frequently-accessed content and said way to access said more-frequently-accessed content.2. An apparatus comprising:a communication interface coupled between first and second data networks, said first data network including a first device having an input for receiving a control data for interactively operating with a second device on said second data network;a controller coupled to said communication interface for monitoring a data traffic between said first and second data networks, said controller analyzing the monitored traffic data to identify a more-frequently-accessed content provided by said second device and said control data indicating a network location of said more-frequently-accessed content to provide a first data indicating said more-frequently-accessed content and a second data indicating a way to access said ...

Action set translation

A database system translates a received set of workflow actions into a graph of nodes. The graph of nodes includes a node set corresponding to each node type of the set of workflow actions. Each node set may be re-executable for each instance of an action type of the set of workflow actions. Upon completion of an action, the graph of nodes is executed. Execution of the graph of nodes includes executing processor executable instructions corresponding to a subset of the set of workflow actions. The subset may be determined base do on the completed action. The completed action may be determined based on a sequence tracking parameter.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS

A system and method and graphic user interface for providing media recommendations. The system and method including enabling a user to select a first media object or a second media object from a plurality of accessible media objects, the first media object having a first set of characteristics and the second media object having a second set of characteristics, determining if a user selects the first media object, selects the second media object, or requests access to two different media objects, adjusting weight values associated with the plurality of media objects based on the user's selection, and recommending media objects to the user based on the adjusted weight values. 1. A method for providing media recommendations , the method comprising:enabling a user to select a first media object or a second media object from a plurality of accessible media objects, the first media object having a first set of characteristics and the second media object having a second set of characteristics;determining if a user selects the first media object, selects the second media object, or requests access to two different media objects;adjusting weight values associated with the plurality of media objects based on the user's selection; andrecommending media objects to the user based on the adjusted weight values.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of adjusting further comprises:increasing the weight values of media objects in the plurality of accessible media objects that have characteristics similar to the first media object and decreasing the weight values of media objects in the plurality of accessible media objects that have characteristics similar to the second media object if it is determined that the user selected the first media object.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of adjusting further comprises:increasing the weight values of media objects in the plurality of accessible media objects that have characteristics similar to the second media object and ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CONTENT PROGRAM DISCOVERY

A system for program information discovery is described. A method and a device for generating and inserting a watermark for such program information discovery into a program signal to be rendered are disclosed, along with the corresponding method and device for watermark detection and decoding from the rendered program signals. Watermark, which carries channel/program information, is encoded and embedded at the set top box where the program streams are received and decoded for rendering. Second screen devices are employed for watermark detection and decoding by capturing the render program signals which has the watermark embedded. The extracted watermark information may be sent to information servers for more detailed channel/program information. 1. A system for using program information comprising:a receiver for receiving and decoding program streams into program signals, for generating and embedding a program information watermark into a portion of the program signals, and for sending the decoded and watermarked program signals for rendering; anda detecting device for detecting and decoding the program information watermark from the rendered program signals.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the detecting device further sends requests using the detected watermark to an information server for program information.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the watermark is embedded into an audio portion of the program signals.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the watermark is embedded into a video portion of the program signals.5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the detecting device is a tablet.6. A method for generating and inserting a program information watermark claim 1 , the method comprising:extracting program information from a program stream;encoding said program information into a watermark message; andembedding said watermark message into a signal of the program stream.7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the embedding step further comprises:modulating said ...

IMAGE SEARCH BASED ON MESSAGE HISTORY

Systems and methods are disclosed for suggesting expressive graphical content to a user to share within a messaging system. Expressive graphical content can include images, video, animated images, any of which may include sound, that a message system user is likely to share because it is related to a conversation between one or more users of the message system. Expressive graphical content may be content that is recent, humorous, and/or popular or trending in popularity, and can be shared without a copyright. A transcript of a message session between two or more users of a message system can be used to generate keywords for identifying and prioritizing expressive graphical content. The keywords can be prioritized and used as search terms to proactively suggest to the user to search for expressive graphical content. A search can be initiated automatically upon selecting one or more of the keywords. 1. A computer-implemented method , comprising:generating a transcript of a message session between a first client device and a second client device;generating a plurality of keywords on the first client device, based at least in part on the transcript;presenting one or more items of graphical content to a user of the first client device, based at least in part on the list of keywords generated from the transcript;in response to a user of the first client device selecting one of the one or more items of graphical content, sharing the selected item of graphical content in a message to the second client device.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:in response to the first client device sending or receiving a message to the second client device, updating the transcript and plurality of keywords.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of keywords is further based on keywords contained in an asset catalog of the first client device claim 1 , and the keywords in the asset catalog are obtained using at least one of the one or more of the plurality of keywords from ...

CAPTURING INFORMATION REGARDING AN INTERACTION TO A DATABASE

Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for capturing information regarding an interaction to a database. A client device receives an indication of an interaction with the client device that satisfies a user-defined trigger. A user interface is provided to the client device having input controls capable of receiving one or more information items. The one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second data field regarding at least one entity associated with the interaction. The one or more information items may generate a custom object that is stored in a database of the on-demand database service. A profile object for the at least one entity may be generated based on an aggregation of the stored one or more items with attributes of the at least one entity. 1. A computer-implemented method for capturing one or more information items regarding an interaction to a database of an on-demand database service , the method comprising:receiving, at a client device associated with a user, an indication of an interaction with the client device, wherein the indication of the interaction satisfies a user-defined trigger, the user-defined trigger including at least one of: a calendar event trigger, a time-based trigger, a media communications trigger, a photo or video capture trigger, a location-based trigger, an audio-based trigger, a Bluetooth-enabled trigger, a near-field communications (NFC) trigger, and an application-based trigger;providing a user interface to the client device in response to the indication of the interaction satisfying the user-defined trigger, wherein the user interface includes input controls configured to receive information items regarding the interaction;receiving one or more information items regarding the interaction, wherein the one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second ...

ANONYMOUS ADVERTISING STATISTICS IN P2P NETWORKS

An advertising statistics collection system employs multiple peers, a signing server and a collection server to ensure peer privacy when the statistics are gathered. A peer relay system aids in providing anonymity for a given peer in a peer-to-peer network environment with little or no trust between communicating parties. Peers are additionally protected by a randomly generated identifier that can be used to globally gather statistics on the peer without revealing the peer's identity. 1. A system that collects advertising statistics , comprising:a plurality of peers in a peer-to-peer network, each peer having its own random identifier and retains a signature for advertising statistic network messages;a signing server that interfaces with at least one peer to verify its signature; anda collection server that receives signed messages sent from a peer and relayed from peer-to-peer to the server.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the peer generates its own random identifier.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the collection server discards peer messages for at least one of an expired message and a message with an invalid signature.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the signing server discards peer messages with an invalid signature.5. The system of claim 4 , wherein a peer used in relaying a message to the collection server discards a message when it is invalid.6. A method for collecting advertising statistics claim 4 , comprising:selecting a random identifier for at least one peer in a peer-to-peer network;attaching the random identifier to a network message containing advertising statistics relating to a given peer; andrelaying the network message from peer to peer to reach a known destination.7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the selection of the random identifier is accomplished in a peer.8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:communicating with a signing server to establish a correct signature for the peer.9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising: ...

Capturing information regarding an interaction to a database

Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for capturing information regarding an interaction to a database. A client device receives an indication of an interaction with the client device that satisfies a user-defined trigger. A user interface is provided to the client device having input controls capable of receiving one or more information items. The one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second data field regarding at least one entity associated with the interaction. The one or more information items may generate a custom object that is stored in a database of the on-demand database service. A profile object for the at least one entity may be generated based on an aggregation of the stored one or more items with attributes of the at least one entity.

METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONTENT FOR A PERSONAL CHANNEL

Creating a listing of suggested content and programming for a virtual channel is performed by generating rankings of previously viewed or accessed content. The method determines whether such content is either cyclical in nature as being related to a series or if such content is broadcasted less frequently. Once such rankings are determined, the listings of suggested (other) content will have a number of entries per time segment which represent the highest ranked suggested per time segment 1. A method that provides a listing of programs comprising:determining content preferences for a user from information related to the consumption of at least one program;recommending a first plurality of ranked content for a first time period from said determined content preferences where said first plurality of ranked content contains an episode of a series from a streaming content provider; andrecommending a second plurality of ranked content for a second time period from said determined content preferences where said second plurality of ranked content contains a second episode of said series from said streaming content provider where said second episode sequentially follows said episode.2. The method of additionally comprising including content broadcasted during said first and second time periods in said respective first and second plurality of ranked content.3. The method of additionally comprising including content stored on a personal video recorder in said first and second plurality of ranked content.4. The method of additionally comprising that said first and second plurality of ranked content are presented in an electronic program guide listing a time period on one axis and rankings on a second axis.5. The method of where a message is provided to said user that content of a higher ranking is starting when said user is accessing content of a lower ranking.6. An apparatus that provides listing of programs comprising:a processor;a memory containing instructions that when ...

Personalization of information content by monitoring network traffic

A home network system (110, 160) that personalizes the selection of information content in accordance with an interest of a user of the network (160) is disclosed. More specifically, a method and apparatus (110) are described for automatically presenting an information content of interest to the user, being provided by an Internet site (107) external to the network (160). The contents of interest may be determined in accordance with an access pattern of the user or a frequency of the use of particular topic in the content.

Personalization of information content by monitoring network traffic

Semantic enrichment by exploiting top-k processing

Proper representation of the meaning of texts is crucial to enhancing many data mining and information retrieval tasks, including clustering, computing semantic relatedness between texts, and searching. Representing of texts in the concept-space derived from Wikipedia has received growing attention recently, due to its comprehensiveness and expertise. This concept-based representation is capable of extracting semantic relatedness between texts that cannot be deduced with the bag of words model. A key obstacle, however, for using Wikipedia as a semantic interpreter is that the sheer size of the concepts derived from Wikipedia makes it hard to efficiently map texts into concept-space. An efficient algorithm is proved which is able to represent the meaning of a text by using the concepts that best match it. In particular, this approach first computes the approximate top- concepts that are most relevant to the given text. These concepts are then leverage to represent the meaning of the given text.

Targeted advertising in a peer-to-peer network

A method is described including requesting content from a directory service, receiving a list of peers in a peer-to-peer network having the requested content, selecting a peer from the received list of peers, establishing communications with the selected peer, receiving a list of chunks of content and ads available from the selected peer, requesting a chunk of content and ads available from said selected peer and receiving the chunk of content and randomly selected ads from the selected peer. Also described is a method including receiving a request for content, generating a list of chunks of content available for the requested content, generating a list of ads associated with the requested content, transmitting the list of available chunks of content responsive to the request, receiving a request for a selected chunk of content and transmitting the selected chunk of content and ads associated with the selected chunk of content.

Method for determining content for a personal channel

Creating a listing of suggested content and programming for a virtual channel is performed by generating rankings of previously viewed or accessed content. The method determines whether such content is either cyclical in nature as being related to a series or if such content is broadcasted less frequently. Once such rankings are determined, the listings of suggested (other) content will have a number of entries per time segment which represent the highest ranked suggested per time segment

Real time protocol stream migration

A method for monitoring and migrating a primary server transmitting a real time streaming protocol (RTSP) stream is provided. Backup servers monitor at least one primary server to determining whether the primary server is active. Upon determining that a primary server is inactive, the backup servers take over the connection on which the inactive primary server was streaming data and then take over the transmission of the RTSP stream. The backup server can further derive the position in a file of the next data needed to be transmitted.

Automatic image discovery and recommendation for displayed television content

A method and system are provided that can automatically discover related images and recommend them. It uses images that occur on the same page or are taken by the same photographer for image discovery. The system can also use semantic relatedness for filtering images. Sentiment analysis can also be used for image ranking and photographer ranking.

Gesture based advertisement profiles for users

The present principles are directed to gesture based advertisement profiles for users. A system includes an advertisement reaction gesture capture device (230) for capturing an advertisement reaction gesture performed by a user responsive to a presentation of a currently presented advertisement. The system further includes a memory device (122) for storing the advertisement reaction gesture.