Patent ID: 8140544
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06F,G09B,G10L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing user interaction with a digital video library, the method comprising the steps of: responsive to a server computer receiving a question from a user regarding course material being presented from a digital video library, determining, by server computer, whether the question is in an audio format; responsive to the server computer determining that the question is in an audio format, converting, by server computer, the question from the audio format to a text format; searching, by the server computer, the course material in a storage device for an answer to the question using keywords found in the text format of the question, wherein the storage device comprises video course materials indexed by time slices or segments; responsive to the server computer receiving raw search results from the searching, assigning, by the server computer, a weight to each search result hit found in the course material; increasing, by the server computer, the assigned weight of each search result hit found in the course material in close inline proximity to other questions asked at a same point in a video presentation of the course material; and outputting, by the server computer, search result hits in a priority order according to the assigned weight.