Patent ID: 8798436
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video engine for use with a video player, comprising: a presenter that presents at least one of a plurality of audio/visual works; a software application capable of a metadata-related interaction with an identified object that appears within the presented audio/visual work; a communication access point over which metadata associated with the presented audio/visual work is received, and over which at least a portion of the metadata-related interaction occurs; a hierarchical taxonomy that effects a common metadata reference to each identified appearance of the object in the plurality of works, wherein the hierarchical taxonomy provides a consistent set of identifiers with which essentially any object that appears in any of the plurality of audio/video works can be identified with a virtually unlimited degree of particularity; and an automated prioritization filter that selects from the audio/visual works those deemed most likely to contain an appearance of the object.