Patent ID: 8341152

Claim:
A method of making an object within a video segment of a video searchable by keyword or keyword phrases on a network having at least one search engine that searches on keywords, the method comprising the steps of: viewing at least a video segment of the video; electronically selecting at least one physical object appearing within a plurality of frames of the video segment by clicking on the object; tracking the selected object through each frame of the video segment; determining (i) a first video frame of the video segment in which the selected object first appears and (ii) a last video frame of the video segment in which the selected object last appears; determining (i) object location data describing a location of the selected object within the first video frame and the last video frame of the video segment in which the selected object appears and (ii) video server location data for the video segment; determining an object link descriptor in words for the selected object and associating the object link descriptor with (i) the video location data and (ii) the object location data; providing a clickable hyperlink for the selected object; generating a plurality of keywords associated with the object link descriptor; storing (i) the video server location data, (ii) the object location data, (iii) the object link descriptor, (iv) the keywords, and (v) the selected object clickable hyperlink, in a computer memory in a computer file associated with the object; and posting on a phantom web page, which is not visible to a user, (i) the stored keywords in a search-engine-searchable language, and (ii) computer file information corresponding to the stored video server location data, object location data, object link descriptor, and the selected object clickable hyperlink.