Patent ID: 9736432
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for identifying popular segments of a network video comprising: receiving video player operation information for a plurality of video players operated by users accessing the network video; evaluating, using a processor, a popularity measure for a segment of the network-video using the received operation information so as to identify popular segments of the network video, wherein the network video comprises a plurality of video segments, the video player operation information for a particular video player regards one or more operations performed by the video player, and a predetermined policy is used to evaluate the popularity measure R wherein, vi represents a video segment, T vi is the time length of the segment, A represents scan forward, B represents scan backward, C represents fast forward and D represents fast backward, t Ai is a duration of a scan forward operation by an ith user in the segment during a current viewing, t Bi is a duration of a scan backward operation by the ith user in the segment during the current viewing, t Ci is a duration of a fast forward operation by the ith user in the segment during the current viewing, and t Di is a duration of a fast backward operation by the ith user in the segment during the current viewing, and K A , K B , K C and K D are weightings for the drag forward, drag backward, fast forward, fast backward operations respectively and m represents a number of the users.