Patent Document ID: 7738778
Application ID: 10562538

Base Claim:
1. A method for producing a multimedia summary of at least one multimedia stream the summary comprising key elements selected from said at least one multimedia stream, the method comprising: a.) one of receiving and retrieving said at least one multimedia stream comprising video, audio and text information; b.) dividing the at least one multimedia stream into a video substream, an audio sub-stream and a text sub-stream; c.) identifying for potential inclusion in the summary video, audio and text key elements from said video, audio and text sub-streams, respectively; d.) computing an importance value for the identified video, audio and text key elements identified at said step (c); e.) first filtering the identified video, audio and text key elements to exclude those key elements whose associated importance value is less than a pre-defined video, audio and text importance threshold, respectively; and f.) second filtering the remaining key elements from said step (e) in accordance with a user profile; g.) third filtering the remaining key elements from said step (f) in accordance with network and user device constraints; and h.) outputting a multimedia summary which comprises key elements remaining from said step (g).

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of dividing the at least one multimedia stream into an audio sub-stream further comprises dividing said at least one multimedia stream into a plurality of equal-sized frames of a fixed time duration.