Patent ID: 8566315

Claim:
On a video hosting site, a computer-implemented method of graphically summarizing video content of a plurality of videos, the method comprising: storing videos; identifying video segments for the stored videos, each video segment associated with a stored video and representing a frequently watched portion of the associated video; receiving a user search query including at least one search term; determining a collection of videos that includes video content related to the at least one search term; creating a set of video segments by, for each of a plurality of videos in the collection, identifying the video segment that represents a frequently watched portion of the video; selecting a first video segment from the set to display in a graphical representation of the collection of videos; accessing a count of co-occurring positive interactions for the first video segment and each of a plurality of second video segments from the set of video segments, a co-occurring positive interaction for the first video segment and a second video segment indicating interest of a user in the first video segment and interest of the user in the second video segment within a determined time interval from the interest of the user in the first video segment; ordering the plurality of second video segments in the set with respect to the first video segment based on the count of co-occurring positive interactions; graphically representing the ordered set, the graphical representation including a plurality of aligned cells, each cell representing a video segment from the set; and transmitting the graphical representation for display.