Patent ID: 7069311

Claim:
A system for providing a skimmed version of multimedia content, the system comprising: means for accessing first skimming information corresponding to a first skimming level of a plurality of previously generated skimming levels of the multimedia content; means for using the first skimming information to access a first plurality of segments of the multimedia content that correspond to the first skimming level; means for forwarding the first plurality of segments to a client computer; means for receiving a selection of a second skimming level of the plurality of previously generated skimming levels from the client computer while the first plurality of segments are being forwarded to the client computer; means for accessing second skimming information corresponding to the second skimming level; means for using the second skimming information to access a second plurality of segments of the multimedia content that correspond to the second skimming level; and means for forwarding the second plurality of segments to the client computer.