Patent ID: 9430478
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for accumulating candidate anchor images, the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: identifying an image link from a list included in a site, by a computer comprising one or more processors, during a Web crawling operation performed by a video search application; determining, by the computer, whether the image link points to an image that is representative of a video contained in a Web page having a video page pattern; associating the image link with the Web page, by the computer, if it is determined that the image link points to the image that is representative of the video contained in the Web page; and storing the image that is representative of the video contained within the Web page in a storage medium in association with the image link and the Web page, wherein the image stored in the storage medium is a candidate anchor image among a plurality of candidate anchor images in the storage medium for anchor image selection.