Patent ID: 8769600

Claim:
A system comprising: a storage medium that stores data representative of a plurality of media content items associated with a plurality of sporting events, information about a plurality of players involved in the plurality of sporting events, the information including an indication of one or more players of interest to a user that are included in the plurality of players, and event information identifying an event related to one of the sporting events and a portion of a media content item included in the plurality of media content items as associated with the event; a feature extractor coupled to the storage medium and that determines an identity of a player involved in the event, and generates metadata for the identified portion of the media content item, the metadata representative of the identity of the player involved in the event; and a manager coupled to the storage medium and the feature extractor, and that determines, based on the metadata, that the player involved in the event is included in the one or more players of interest, and generates a highlight message including an indication of highlight media, the highlight media including the identified portion of the media content item, wherein the highlight message causes a user device associated with the user to automatically begin playback of the identified portion of the media content item without the user requesting the playback to begin.