Patent ID: 7260564
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer system for video spidering comprising: one or more processors; and an addressable storage medium having instructions executed by the one or more processors to perform: dynamically identify a script associated with at least one video on a network, parse the script associated with the video, execute the parsed script to identify video content, and evaluate the executed script to generate a location identifier of the video content; check the generated location identifier against the known location identifiers, and eliminate the generated location identifier if it is not unique or predetermined properties have not changed in reference to a known location identifier in the storage; group together differently encoded versions of the video content varying by bit rate or player format, and apply a selection criterion to select one best differently encoded version of the video content; and generate a time-based index of the one best differently coded version of the video content, and store a location identifier, corresponding to the indexed video, in the storage as a known location identifier.