Patent ID: 8763030

Claim:
A method implemented on a computer having a processor, a storage, and a communication platform connected to a network, for producing a continuous rich media video clip describing a good and/or service offered for sale, comprising the steps of: receiving, over the network, a request from a user for creating a continuous rich media video clip describing a good and/or service; obtaining first information related to the good and/or service where the first information characterizes the good and/or service; selecting, by an automated production assistant, one or more rich media video clips from a database based on the request and the first information, where each of the rich media video clips describes at least one feature of the good and/or service and at least one of the video clips has a voice-over audio element created in accordance with a script, which is automatically generated with respect to the good and/or service using one or more templates, wherein each of the templates is selected automatically based on the good and/or service offered for sale, each template being a lexically meaningful sentence of connected words which include alphanumerical descriptors corresponding to the feature and which represents a variant of a sentence in a selected language, each variant describing the at least one feature with a slant tailored to a particular promotion related theme; automatically identifying second information characterizing one or more special offers associated with the good and/or service; automatically creating the requested continuous rich media video clip for the good and/or service by stitching together the second information and the one or more rich media video clips, wherein the continuous rich media video clip has the one or more rich media video clips automatically arranged in a sequence with the second information associated with each special offer seamlessly incorporated therein; and transmitting the continuous rich media video clip to the user as a response to the request.