Patent ID: 7971217
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content digest system comprising: a content provider comprising content, wherein the content provider furnishes content and meta data describing the content to a digest server; the digest server comprising a content digest for the content, wherein the digest server converts the meta data into characteristic values, wherein the digest server calculates an importance level for each of a plurality of content segments, wherein each of the plurality of content segments correspond to at least one of the characteristic values, and wherein the digest server generates the content digest by using the importance levels, the content digest comprising at least two of the content segments sorted along a time axis based on said importance level, wherein said importance level is a degree of importance; and a client, wherein the client receives the content digest, wherein the client includes a user profile having user profile content scores for at least one viewed content segment for a user, and wherein the digest server calculates importance levels for the at least one viewed content segment based on a probability and based on a current determined content score for the at least one viewed content segment, a user profile content score for the at least one viewed content segment, or both the current determined content score and the user profile content score, wherein the probability is determined from at least one of a plurality of frequencies, each of the frequencies indicating how often a characteristic value occurs in the content segment.