Patent ID: 9484065
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for marking one or more content segments from a distributed multimedia content stream as replayable segments of interest, the method comprising: identifying a multimedia content stream that has been distributed to, and has had at least part of its content played to a plurality of users who are not all local to one another and who are respectively monitored by respective ones of remote from one another and network connected capture devices; receiving by way of a network and from the remote-from-one-another capture devices of a plurality of the monitored users, feedback information related to the identified multimedia content stream, the received feedback information indicating one or more of determined emotional responses and one or more of determined stream presentation control actions of the monitored users and timings of behaviors associated with those determined emotional responses and with those stream presentation control actions of the monitored users, wherein the stream presentation control actions of each respectively monitored user control how the identified multimedia content stream is presented to the respectively monitored user; based on the received feedback information received way of the network and from the remote-from-one-another capture devices of the monitored users, using the indicated timings of the received feedback information to identify one or more segments in the content of the identified multimedia content stream corresponding to the one or more of the determined emotional responses and the one or more of the determined stream presentation control actions of the plurality of the monitored users; and based on the identifying of the one or more segments, generating a marked multimedia content stream having content of the identified multimedia content stream, the marked stream including marked and replayable content whose respective marking denotes the corresponding content as having at least one content segment corresponding to the detected one or more of the emotional responses and the one or more of the determined stream presentation control actions of the plurality of the monitored users; wherein: the capture devices are configured to detect behaviors of their respective users and to determine therefrom a corresponding one or more of the emotional responses and stream control actions of their monitored users; the capture devices are configured to respond to the stream presentation control actions of their monitored users by controlling at least one of time of playing to their respective users of content portions of the distributed and at least partly played multimedia content stream, including by means of play time control through rewinding and replaying of content, fast forwarding through content and stopping or pausing a playing of content; the capture devices are further configured to provide identifying information about the respective content portion played to the respective users at the time of their respectively detected behaviors; and the identifying of the one or more segments based on the received feedback information comprises: analyzing received user-feedback information related to play time control by the one or more users to thereby identify for the marking of the replayable content, that content which is related to one or more of a pause, forward, rewind, jump or a stop control behaviors detected by the capture devices.