PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["725", "039000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides methods and systems for skipping unwanted portions of media content based on a crowdsourcing feedback model. The media content may include television programming content, video content, and audio content. The unwanted portions of media content include, for example, television commercials, opening and closing credits. An exemplary crowdsourcing feedback model involves receiving and processing a plurality of user seek information records. These records include time markers of the media content indicating when the users started and stopped fast forwarding or when the users started and stopped moving a scrub bar to jump from one portion of the content to another. When collected, the user seek information records are used to train a machine-learning system to calculate start and stop times of unwanted portions of media content. Once the start and stop times are calculated, user devices are enabled to automatically skip these unwanted portions.

Claim (Index 20):
A non-transitory processor-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a method for skipping one or more unwanted portions of a media content, the method comprising:\n providing the media content to a plurality of users; enabling each of the users to individually control playing of the media content on a user device; obtaining a plurality of user seek information records associated with the playing of the media content from the plurality of users, wherein each of the user seek information records includes a first seek time marker, a second seek time marker, a third seek time marker, and a fourth seek time marker, the first, second, third, and fourth seek time markers being created successively in time; calculating, for at least one of the user seek information records, a period between the third seek time marker and the second seek time marker, wherein the calculated period between the third seek time marker and the second seek time marker is less than a predetermined value; after the calculating, correcting the second seek time marker with the fourth seek time marker; determining a start time and a stop time of a first unwanted portion of the media content based on a plurality of the first seek time markers and a plurality of the second seek time markers; and providing a control widget of a graphical user interface for a user device of a selected user when the media content is played for the selected user, wherein when the control widget is activated by the selected user, the first unwanted portion of the media content is skipped from the start time and up to the stop time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97531
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12411906', '15233336', '15806379', '12875892', '14740247']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4412494235698594
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4783287425437728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4449573554672507
- Mean Citation Score: 154.58973799999995
- Max Citation Score: 166.90034
- Similarity Product: 117.30532434074402

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test