Patent ID: 8204359

Claim:
A method of providing modified media content, the method comprising: receiving media content, the media content comprising audio data and video data having a first number of video frames; identifying audio segments of the audio data, wherein the audio segments include a plurality of language segments that include audio words and a plurality of non-language segments, wherein adjacent language segments are separated by one of the non-language segments; assigning a priority value to each language segment, wherein the priority value of a particular language segment is based on one or more first characteristics of one or more words in the particular language segment; assigning a priority value to each non-language segment, wherein the priority value of a particular non-language segment is based on one or more second characteristics of the particular non-language segment; identifying audio elements, wherein the audio elements include language segments of the plurality of language segments that have priority values that exceed a base priority value and non-language segments of the plurality of non-language segments that have priority values that exceed the base priority value, wherein the base priority value is determined based at least in part on a scanning rate of the audio data, and wherein the scanning rate is greater than a recorded rate of the media content; and generating abstracted media content that includes the audio elements and portions of the video data associated with the audio elements.