Patent ID: 7716153

Claim:
A memory assistance system, comprising: a signal processing server that: receives an input signal, said input signal comprising a media signal and associated data, and relating to information to be remembered by a user; and processes the input signal to identify characteristics of the media signal relevant to aiding the user to remember the information; presentation logic that: generates, based on said identified characteristics at least one media clip from a portion of the media signal; and determines a time and medium to present the media clip to the user so as to aid the user in remembering the information; and a speech processing module, said speech processing module comprising: a speech recognition component; and a text analysis component; wherein, the presentation logic generates the at least one media clip from a portion of the media signal that includes a textual word identified, from speech included in the media signal, by the speech recognition component, and the text analysis component determines that the identified textual word matches a keyword.