Patent ID: 8296675

Claim:
A method for providing one or more attention hotspots in a temporal media, comprising: identifying at least one event related to playback or browsing of the temporal media; deriving a significance of the identified event in accordance with one or more rules; assigning a signifier based on the derived significance of the event; associating the signifier with the temporal media, further comprising: segmenting the temporal media into one or more segments, deriving for each segment one or more signifiers in accordance with the one or more rules, and associating each of the signifiers with at least one of the segments such that: when a user has shown interest in a sequence within one of the one or more segments by panning the sequence, automatically creating a pan event signifier and associating the pan event signifier with the one or more segments, when a user has shown interest in a sequence within one of the one or more segments expressed through viewing the sequence for a time greater than a threshold period, automatically creating a gawk event signifier and associating the gawk event signifier with the one or more segments, and when a user has shown interest in a sequence within one or more segments expressed through one or more zoom interactions, automatically creating a zoom event signifier and associating the zoom event signifier with the one or more segments; presenting the signifier to a user visually on a timeline scroll bar for the temporal media; and allowing the user to override the presented signifier by one of choosing another signifier to be associated with the temporal media and preventing the presented signifier to be associated with the temporal media.