Patent ID: 8924383

Claim:
A system comprising: a content acquisition platform executed on a processor and to receive media content including a video file and a related audio file of a broadcast television program broadcast without metadata and without closed captioning from a source and store the media content in a media storage platform; a media processing platform to segment the media content based upon predetermined criteria defined by a user, generate metadata in real time, and store the metadata in an index in the media storage platform, corresponding to the media content segmented, the metadata including a dialog approximation based on speech recognition of the media content by the media processing platform, a topic boundary, and a scene boundary; an alert platform to provide the user with: an immediate alert identifying the media content segmented, the immediate alert including a portion of the metadata stored in the media storage platform, the immediate alert transmitted to the user in response to the metadata generated in real time while the media content segmented is being received and before an entire media clip is received by the content acquisition platform, the media clip determined to be of interest to the user based on the predetermined criteria matching information derived from processing the media content in real time, the immediate alert transmitted to a device of the user identified in a subset of a user contact list, the subset identifying devices selected by the user from devices in the user contact list to be used for notification purposes; and a predictive alert identifying media content matching the user's profile that will be broadcast from the source at a later time, the predictive alert transmitted to a device of the user identified in the subset of a user contact list, the subset identifying devices selected by the user from devices in the user contact list to be used for notification purposes; and a content delivery platform to send the media content segmented to the device of the user.