Patent Document ID: 9846696
Application ID: 13408448

Base Claim:
1. A method for indexing multimedia content, the method comprising: segmenting the multimedia content, by a computer, into a plurality of segments; identifying by the computer, for each segment, one or more features present in the segment, wherein the features are of respective media types; identifying by the computer, for each identified feature in each segment, one or more respective keywords associated the identified feature; and determining by the computer, for each identified keyword associated with an identified feature in a given segment, a respective relevance of the keyword to the given segment, wherein the respective relevance is dependent on a weight associated with the respective media type of the identified feature.

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Claim 21:
21. The method of claim 1 , wherein a given one of the identified keywords is associated with, at the least, i) a first feature present in a first segment of the multimedia content and ii) a second feature also present in the first segment of the multimedia content; determining the relevance of said given keyword to the first segment comprises: a) determining a first relevance score for the first feature based on one or more of the weight associated with the media type of the first feature and a prominence of the first feature within the first segment, b) determining a second relevance score for the second feature based on one or more of the weight associated with the media type of the second feature and a prominence of the second feature within the first segment, c) calculating the relevance of the given keyword using the first relevance score and the second relevance score as inputs to the calculation.