Patent ID: 8219553

Claim:
A method of managing information, comprising: providing media information via a web broadcast; converting audio content in the media information to textual content; generating a group of words from the textual content that are correlated to one or more passages in the textual content to enable a search of words from the group of words to cause a retrieval of the one or more passages in the textual content; receiving a plurality of markers during the web broadcast that annotates the audio content in the media information based on one or more words searched from the group of words, wherein the plurality of markers are correlated to a corresponding plurality of segments of the media information, wherein the plurality of markers are descriptive of content in the corresponding plurality of segments, wherein the plurality of markers are stored in an annotation file, and wherein each marker of the plurality of markers has an identifier to locate the segment correlated with the marker; and searching the media information according to the plurality of markers in the annotation file.