Patent ID: 9031382
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A data processing method comprising: at a computer, obtaining a link to a stored video program and obtaining metadata that relates to the video program and that defines a first audiovisual experience; wherein the first audiovisual experience comprises a reference to the video program, one or more annotations that are associated with actions, one or more cue points each associated with a specified time point in the video program, one or more graphic images, and structural data indicating dimensions and screen locations of a video region in which the video program is to be displayed, regions representing the annotations, and the graphic images; automatically copying the metadata into a shadow data set that includes the structural data but omits all of: the reference to the video program; the annotations; the cue points; the graphic images; causing displaying, on a computer display unit, a first representation of the shadow data set in which the structural data is represented as a plurality of rectangles that represent the dimensions and screen locations of the video region and the regions representing the annotations; receiving input data representing one or more selections of new graphic images and new media assets in association with selections of specified particular rectangles among the plurality of rectangles; creating and storing a second audiovisual experience by updating the shadow data set to include new references to the new graphic images and the new media assets; wherein the method is performed using one or more computing devices.