Patent ID: 8296797

Claim:
A method for displaying video data within result presentations in information access systems or information search systems, wherein the method comprises: applying a query to a set of videos; identifying matching videos in the set of videos; producing a result page with at least one of the matching videos; pre-computing compressed thumbnails for the matching videos; applying one or more of the pre-computed compressed thumbnails to the result page; enabling a user selection of a video in the result page; generating a video summary that provides to an end user an abbreviated review of a complete video, the video summary comprising a plurality of frames from the complete video including frames near the beginning of the video and frames near the end of the video but not all of the frames from the complete video, the complete video being one of the matching videos, wherein generating the video summary comprises: identifying, in the video, a frame sequence whose corresponding audio track contains a query term in the query; and including the frame sequence in the video summary; and activating, by a server, streaming of the video summary displayed within the context of the result page in response to the user selection of the video.