Patent ID: 9594834
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for ingesting and delivering video comprising: crawling, by a crawler component executed by a processor, one or more predetermined video reference sources and selectively ingesting, by an ingest component executed by a processor, one or more videos and their metadata based on predetermined ingest criteria; analyzing, by an analysis component executed by a processor, the ingested videos to identify moments in a video by parsing comments relating to the video, identifying a moment if a comment includes a reference to a time in the video and storing the time and a text of the comment in a record of the moment; recording user activity data related to a user's activity with respect to one or more ingested videos; rating for a particular user, by a rating component executed by a processor, the ingested videos according to predetermined rating factors, including at least comparing metadata of a video to the particular user's activity data; searching, by a search component executed by a processor, at least the text of moment records and the metadata associated with ingested videos based on search parameters received from the particular user; and delivering videos together with associated moments to the particular user, by a delivery component executed by a processor, based on the results of the searching step in order of their rating as determined by the results of the rating step.