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ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONS
FOR USE IN CONTENT RESOURCES
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This International Patent Application claims priority to U.S.
Provisional
Patent Application Serial No. 61/950,352, filed March 10, 2014, entitled
"ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AUDIO
TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR USE IN CONTENT RESOURCES" the entirety of
which is incorporated herein by reference as if set forth herein in its
entirety.
BACKGROUND
Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to the transcription of audio, and,
more
particularly, to an engine, system and method of providing audio
transcriptions for use in content resources.
Background of the Invention
[0003] There exists a need for an engine, system and method that provides
audio
transcriptions for use in content resources.
SUMMARY
[0004] The present invention includes at least a computer-implemented engine,
system and method for generating audio transcriptions for use in content
resources.
[0005] Thus, the present invention provides an engine, system and method that
provides audio transcriptions for use in content resources. It is to be
understood that both the foregoing general description and the following
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detailed description are exemplary and explanatory, and are intended to
provide further explanation of the invention as discussed herein throughout.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0006] The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further
understanding
of the disclosed embodiments. In the drawings, like numerals represent like
elements, and:
[0007] Figure 1 illustrates an aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the
present
invention;
[0008] Figure 2 illustrates an aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the
present
invention;
[0009] Figure 3 illustrates an aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the
present
invention; and
[0010] Figure 4 illustrates an aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the
present
invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0011] Computer-implemented platforms, engines, systems and methods of use are
disclosed that provide networked access to a plurality of types of digital
content, including but not limited to video, audio, metadata, interactive and
document content, and that track, deliver manipulate, transform and report
the accessed content. Described embodiments of these platforms, engines,
systems and methods are intended to be exemplary and not limiting. As
such, it is contemplated that the herein described systems and methods can
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be adapted to provide many types of cloud-based valuations, scoring,
marketplaces, and the like, and can be extended to provide enhancements
and/or additions to the exemplary platforms, engines, systems and methods
described. The invention is thus intended to include all such extensions.
Reference will now be made in detail to various exemplary and illustrative
embodiments of the present invention.
[0012] Figure 1 depicts an exemplary computing system 100 for use in
accordance
with herein described system and methods. Computing system 100 is
capable of executing software, such as an operating system (OS) and a
variety of computing applications 190. The operation of exemplary
computing system 100 is controlled primarily by computer readable
instructions, such as instructions stored in a computer readable storage
medium, such as hard disk drive (HDD) 115, optical disk (not shown) such
as a CD or DVD, solid state drive (not shown) such as a USB "thumb drive,"
or the like. Such instructions may be executed within central processing
unit (CPU) 110 to cause computing system 100 to perform operations. In
many known computer servers, workstations, personal computers, and the
like, CPU 110 is implemented in an integrated circuit called a processor.
[0013] It is appreciated that, although exemplary computing system 100 is
shown to
comprise a single CPU 110, such description is merely illustrative as
computing system 100 may comprise a plurality of CPUs 110. Additionally,
computing system 100 may exploit the resources of remote CPUs (not
shown), for example, through communications network 170 or some other
data communications means.
[0014] In operation, CPU 110 fetches, decodes, and executes instructions
from a
computer readable storage medium such as HDD 115. Such instructions
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can be included in software such as an operating system (OS), executable
programs, and the like. Information, such as computer instructions and
other computer readable data, is transferred between components of
computing system 100 via the system's main data-transfer path. The main
data-transfer path may use a system bus architecture 105, although other
computer architectures (not shown) can be used, such as architectures
using serializers and deserializers and crossbar switches to communicate
data between devices over serial communication paths. System bus 105
can include data lines for sending data, address lines for sending
addresses, and control lines for sending interrupts and for operating the
system bus. Some busses provide bus arbitration that regulates access to
the bus by extension cards, controllers, and CPU 110. Devices that attach
to the busses and arbitrate access to the bus are called bus masters. Bus
master support also allows multiprocessor configurations of the busses to
be created by the addition of bus master adapters containing processors
and support chips.
[0015] Memory devices coupled to system bus 105 can include random access
memory (RAM) 125 and read only memory (ROM) 130. Such memories
include circuitry that allows information to be stored and retrieved. ROMs
130 generally contain stored data that cannot be modified. Data stored in
RAM 125 can be read or changed by CPU 110 or other hardware devices.
Access to RAM 125 and/or ROM 130 may be controlled by memory
controller 120. Memory controller 120 may provide an address translation
function that translates virtual addresses into physical addresses as
instructions are executed. Memory controller 120 may also provide a
memory protection function that isolates processes within the system and
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isolates system processes from user processes. Thus, a program running
in user mode can normally access only memory mapped by its own process
virtual address space; it cannot access memory within another process'
virtual address space unless memory sharing between the processes has
been set up.
[0016] In addition, computing system 100 may contain peripheral controller
135
responsible for communicating instructions using a peripheral bus from CPU
110 to peripherals, such as printer 140, keyboard 145, and mouse 150. An
example of a peripheral bus is the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
bus.
[0017] Display 160, which is controlled by display controller 155, can be
used to
display visual output and/or presentation generated by or at the request of
computing system 100. Such visual output may include text, graphics,
animated graphics, and/or video, for example. Display 160 may be
implemented with a CRT-based video display, an LCD-based flat-panel
display, gas plasma-based flat-panel display, touch-panel, or the like.
Display controller 155 includes electronic components required to generate
a video signal that is sent to display 160.
[0018] Further, computing system 100 may contain network adapter 165 which may
be used to couple computing system 100 to an external communication
network 170, which may include or provide access to the Internet.
Communications network 170 may provide user access for computing
system 100 with means of communicating and transferring software and
information electronically. Additionally, communications network 170 may
provide for distributed processing, which involves several computers and
the sharing of workloads or cooperative efforts in performing a task. It is
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appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other
means of establishing communications links between computing system
100 and remote users may be used.
[0019] It is
appreciated that exemplary computing system 100 is merely illustrative
of a computing environment in which the herein described systems and
methods may operate and does not limit the implementation of the herein
described systems and methods in computing environments having differing
components and configurations, as the inventive concepts described herein
may be implemented in various computing environments using various
components and configurations.
[0020] As shown in Figure 2, computing system 100 can be deployed in networked
computing environment 200. In
general, the above description for
computing system 100 applies to server, client, and peer computers
deployed in a networked environment, for example, server 205, laptop
computer 210, and desktop computer 230. Figure
2 illustrates an
exemplary illustrative networked computing environment 200, with a server
in communication with client computing and/or communicating devices via a
communications network, in which the herein described apparatus and
methods may be employed.
[0021] As shown in Figure 2, server 205 may be interconnected via a
communications network 240 (which may include any of, or any combination
of, a fixed-wire or wireless LAN, WAN, intranet, extranet, peer-to-peer
network, virtual private network, the Internet, or other communications
network such as POTS, ISDN, VolP, PSTN, etc.) with a number of client
computing/communication devices such as laptop computer 210, wireless
mobile telephone 215, wired telephone 220, personal digital assistant 225,
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user desktop computer 230, and/or other communication enabled devices
(not shown). Server 205 can comprise dedicated servers operable to
process and communicate data such as digital content 250 to and from
client devices 210, 215, 220, 225, 230, etc. using any of a number of known
protocols, such as hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), file transfer protocol
(FTP), simple object access protocol (SOAP), wireless application protocol
(WAP), or the like. Additionally, networked computing environment 200 can
utilize various data security protocols such as secured socket layer (SSL),
pretty good privacy (PGP), virtual private network (VPN) security, or the
like.
Each client device 210, 215, 220, 225, 230, etc. can be equipped with an
operating system operable to support one or more computing and/or
communication applications, such as a web browser (not shown), email (not
shown), or the like, to interact with server 205.
[0022] It is generally accepted that advertising (hereinafter also referred
to as "ad"
or "creative") having the highest impact on the desired consumer base
includes endorsements, sponsorships, or affiliations from those persons,
entities, or the like from whom the targeted consumers seek guidance, such
as based on the endorser's knowledge of particular goods or in a particular
industry, the fame of the endorser, the respect typically accorded a
particular endorser or sponsor, and other similar factors. Additionally, the
easiest manner in which to sell advertising time or blocks of advertising time
is to relay to a particular advertiser that the advertising time purchased by
that advertiser will be used in connection with an audio visual work that has
an endorsement therein for that particular advertiser's brand of goods or
services. As used herein, such an endorsement may include an assertion of
use of a particular good or service by an actor, actress, or subject in the
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audio visual work, reference to a need for a particular types of goods or
services in the audio visual work, or an actual endorsement of the use of a
product within the audio visual work.
[0023] Endorsements may be limited in certain ways, as will be apparent to
those
skilled in the art. Such limitations may include geographic limitations on the
use of particular products (endorsers are more likely to endorse locally in
various locales rather than nationally endorse, in part because national
endorsements bring a single endorsement fee and generally preclude the
repetitious collection of many smaller fees for many local endorsements), or
limitations on the use of endorsements in particular industries, wherein a
different product or a different industry may be endorsed (such as in a
different geographical area) by the same endorser, or limitations on
endorsements solely to a particular field(s) or type(s) of product, rather
than
to a specific brand of product. Further, endorsements by particular
endorsers may be limited to products, brands or products or services, types
of products or services, or the like which are approved by one or more
entities external from, but affiliated with, the specific endorser. For
example,
the National Football League may allow for its players only to endorse
certain products, brands of products, types of products, or the like, that are
also endorsed by the NFL.
[0024] More specifically, as used herein endorsements may include:
endorsements
or sponsorships, in which an individual or a brand may be used to market
another product or service to improve the marketability of that other product
or service; marketing partnerships, in which short term relationships
between different products or services are employed to improve the
marketing of each respective product or service; and brand affinity, which is
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built around a long term relationship between different products or services
such that, over time, consumers come to accept an affinity of one brand
based on its typical placement with another brand in another industry.
[0025] At present, there is a need for a platform or engine to allow for the
obtaining
of an endorsement, or endorsed ad, in any of the above circumstances,
either from a specific individual, a specific entity, an affinity brand, a
marketing partner, or a sponsor. In the present invention, an endorsed
advertising engine 10, such as that illustrated in Figure 3, may include a
vault 12 that provides media assets 14 and integration of media assets
without need of involving the media assets for permission, a brand
association or recommendation engine 20 that may, by creative, by market,
by brand affinity, by user request, or otherwise match media assets from the
vault with an creative/ad 22, and a delivery engine 26 capable of integrating
a requested ad 22 with the media asset 14 from the vault 12, late stage
binding of the ad 22 and media asset 16 upon delivery to strongest target
consumers, and delivery of the ad 22 and the dynamic media asset 16 from
the vault to an advertiser or advertising server, which then places the mash
up of the ad and media asset. Needless to say, the aforementioned engines
may be included in the present invention in any combination of one or more
engines. Ad requests 22 may be made via an "ad wizard" using ad
templates, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
[0026] The vault captures certain brands and information related thereto, such
as
use rules, in a common database, such as all major league baseball past
and present players, including statistics, video, and pictures of those
players
affiliated with the names of those players, in addition to any endorsement
limitations on those players. The vault may include media assets that may
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be associated with audio-visual works. The vault may include symbols,
emblems, taglines, pictures, video, press releases, publications, web links,
web links to external content, and media capable of re-purposing (such as
an athlete running in front of a blue screen, wherein the athlete may be re-
purposed by the placement of a background over the blue screen), including
pictures, voice, and video. The vault may also include, associated with the
brand, exclusion, inclusions, or preferences 50 for the use of the brand or
particular items of information associated with the brand in the vault. Such
inclusions, exclusions, or preferences may include geographic limitations on
certain information items or endorsements, product limitations, preferred
partners or products or product types for endorsement, etc. Exclusions may,
of course, be necessary if the requested endorsement conflicts with a pre-
existing endorsement agreement for the requested brand with a competitor,
or the like.
[0027] Further, media assets in the vault may be marked with different payment
schema 52 based on the requester of the media asset. For example, in the
event the ad requester is a school, and the requested creative is not an ad
to sell anything, media assets may be available for use for free. Such
exceptions may be made, with regard to payment, with regard to any level
of payment variation as between any number of different user types, such
as non-profit, for-profit, individual, corporate, in-home, in-business, and
the
like. Additionally, for example, icons of a favorite football player may be
requested by a non-profit individual for at-home use, to be overlayed over a
live football program then on that individual's television, at no charge to
that
individual.
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[0028] The brand association and recommendation engine 20 assesses, based on
numerous factors including external factors, the endorsements that are most
sensible for particular advertising. For example, such a brand association
engine gauges proper matches by assessing inclusions and exclusions
based on the aforementioned factors in the vault, such as geography, but
additionally can use stored or external information and/or variable factoring
to do brand associations for any two brands (such as wherein brand
associations already exhibiting brand affinity would have the highest
percentage association, and brands which would make the most sensible
association would also exhibit higher percentage matching for brand
association), or to do matching with an endorsement brand based on the
target consumers of the requesting brand.
[0029] For example, a "profile" 60 may be developed in the vault for a
particular
brand. Such a profile may include any of a myriad of information, both
stored in the vault and having external references outside the vault from
within the vault, including but not limited to psychological profiles of
typical
users of that brand (which may include values, motivations, wants, and
needs of such users, and which may be assessed based on inferences from
on-line, credit card, or television use by those users, for example), brand
profiles including target customers, target affiliate profiles (which may
include reasons for desired affiliation, such as sharing marketing costs,
increasing brand recognition in certain geographies or fields of use,
distribution channel access, expedited market entry, or improved brand
perception, for example), and the like, and such profiles may be used as
media assets by the recognition engine in order to develop a best match. As
an additional example, polling may provide for local or national focus and
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maintained in the vault as an associated media asset with a particular
brand, and best matches for certain brands may be selected according to
such polling results. For example, a "flashy" sports personality may be a
best match for a brand offering in Los Angeles, but a different athlete's
endorsement might be preferably to sell that brand in the mid-west. Such
information, including "who's hot", or where a brand is "hot", may be
associated with the media assets regarding that brand in the vault, and may
be thus used by the recommendation engine to do matching.
[0030] Thus, the recommendation engine may passively or actively inform of the
best endorsement matches for a particular users ads, based on any
number of factors. Upon assessment of good matches for the requesting
brand, a user of the present invention may have the matching options
presented to that user for selection by the recommendation engine, or the
user may simply have a best-match selection made for the user. Needless
to say, bids for advertising may vary based on the matches obtained by the
recommendation engine, and/or the asserted likelihood of success that the
ad placed will be successful. Success, of course, may be different in
different circumstances, and may include a consumer making an on-line or
in-store purchase, a user filling out an on-line or off-line form, a consumer
accessing and downloading information or a coupon, or the like.
[0031] The delivery engine 26 may integrate a requested ad with the media
asset
from the vault pursuant to the actions by the recommendation engine, and
may place a particular ad in the environment it deems best suited for that ad
(such as in the event of a re-direct, wherein a web site gives some
information about an ad request, and the best ad can be placed responsive
to the ad request), late stage bind the ad and media asset for delivery to
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strongest target consumers (such as with the improvement in later stage
tracking for improved ad targeting, such as if the consumers requesting IF
address and/or the referring site information is available just prior to ad
delivery), or deliver the static ad and the dynamic media asset from the vault
to an advertiser or advertising server, which then independently places the
mash up of the ad and media asset. Needless to say, bids for advertising
time may vary depending upon the delivery mechanism used.
[0032] Improvement in later stage tracking for improved ad targeting may be
enabled through the delivery engine 26 and will allow for greater efficiency
the trafficking of ads during or after or with or without interface with the
delivery engine 26. Efficiency may be obtained by tracking, for example, the
data intelligence for use with the delivery of the creative. By way of non-
limiting example, data intelligence may include click-thru rate, post-click
conversion rate, post-impression activities, as well as geography,
demographic and daypart information. Gathered data intelligence may be
used as individual properties in conjunction with each other to form or
produce the level of intelligence needed to achieve the desired efficiencies.
By way of further example, data intelligence may also include information
regarding the number of impressions an ad has received, and/or the
elapsed time between an impression or a click. Additionally, data
intelligence may include information regarding valuable ads or creatives that
should have been, but were not, placed, such as, for example, available ad
slots online, on television, on radio, or the like, into which a competitor or
competitive product or service, was placed. Thereby, data intelligence
provides for a reevaluation of value, thus enabling an advertiser to not miss
optimal opportunities more than once.
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[0033] Thus, utilizing data intelligence allows the delivery engine 26 to
optimize
targeting to new and the equivalent of past targets. Optimization may
include efficiencies of time and control over redundancies and ad targeting,
for example. Optimization allows for the prediction of probable impressions
or clicks that a certain ad or creative may receive when, for example, or that
similar past ads have received, for example, with consideration of certain
factors, such as demographic and geographic, for example. A prediction
may also be made regarding the efficiency of paid searches, and/or may be
further contrasted with, for example, display ads. Such information, as
drawn from the data intelligence, may also allow for the higher success
rates related to redundant ad placement based on prior behavior of a
particular audience, for example. The same can be true for the avoidance of
redundancy when, for example, data intelligence may be used to keep
certain ads or creatives from repeatedly reaching an audience with, for
example, low click-through rates. Redundancy avoidance may also include
the avoidance of competing ads or creatives, whether or not placed for the
same entity. For example, date intelligence may monitor the number of
"avails" of prime time tv characters wearing sports jerseys, and based on
Neilsen ratings, the exposures gained by those advertisers placing to such
avails. Thus, data intelligence may suggest an optimal value of placing to
such avails for a sports jersey seller for future ones of such avails.
[0034] The delivery engine 26 may also choose to deactivate and/or modify
certain
creatives based on data intelligence and/or user direction. The delivery
engine may include fulfillment offline, such as on tv, for example. By way of
non-limiting example, the data intelligence may be collected from several ad
or creative types over any number of varying media formats, allowing for
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even more sophisticated optimization, and ultimately delivery, based on the
allocation of impressions and clicks in the various media formats. Media
formats may include, but are not limited to, internet, t.v., radio, mobile
devices, kiosks, billboards, product placements, and print. By further way of
non-limiting example, data intelligence gathered during a run of a creative
on the radio may effect the play of an ad on the internet, for example. The
delivery engine 26 may additionally allow for the interplay between data
intelligence and real time metrics or community-based information. This real
time intelligence gathering may also be used to calibrate a campaign(s) of
multiple ads or creatives. By way of non-limiting example only, a campaign
of with several creative versions may be measured based on gathered data
intelligence and optimized to improve, for example, click-through and/or
viewership/listenership. Such optimization may thus be done in real time
and over multiple media types. The optimization may, by way of further non-
limiting example, call for the addition of ads or creatives not currently
within
the campaign(s), thus suggesting what type of ads or creatives are required
for optimization regardless of whether or not the ads or creatives reside in
inventory.
[0035] Optimization of ads and creatives increases the value of ad and
creative
inventory and may, for example, provide for greater value pre and post
delivery. The data intelligence may also allow for real-time valuations based
on pre-existing and predicted avails, thus maximizing the value of the
eventual placed ad or ad/creative inventory. Value can be also maximized
for premium and non-premium content. Functionality within the delivery
engine 26 may also allow for variable rate sampling and frequency cap
forecasting.
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[0036] Because the bids for advertising time in the present invention may
vary as
discussed above, the present invention lends itself to auction-style
placement of advertising, in which bids are solicited for particular
locations,
times, or blocks of advertising. Auctions may be held, for example, on line,
and may be broken down by media outlet type of ad (i.e. television, internet,
etc.), product type of ad, or in any similar manner.
[0037] Further, the present invention may facilitate the placement of
assets,
creatives, and/or products in a variety of display mediums. More specifically,
in an embodiment of the present invention, the delivery engine 26 may
facilitate the placement of brands in various media through the
aforementioned marketplace of avails offered for sale. This marketplace
brings together both advertisers and media owners allowing for the
matching of products with appropriate placements offered for sale by media
owners within the created media. Created media may include TV, film,
music, advertising, video games, software products, on-line content, and
events, for example.
[0038] Product placements, as they are generally referred to in the
industry, are
"avails" as discussed herein and foster brand recall, feeling and purchase
intent. Placements may include visual avails, including prop usage and
background placements, in created media as well as in dialogue mentions.
The present invention joins together media owners, studios, production
companies, and "below-the-line" production staff (collectively "media
owners") with marketers, product placement agencies and advertising
agencies (collectively "placement owners"). The ability of media owners and
placement owners to participate in a real-time marketplace where assets
may be bought and sold may provide a more efficient exchange of assets
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as well as providing a better opportunity to exploit assets of lesser value by
reducing transaction costs.
[0039] In an embodiment of the present invention, the placements offered
for sale
may themselves be considered assets within the present invention. Working
in conjunction with the brand association and recommendation engine 20,
the present invention may connect, for example, a product with a
placement, and may ultimately deliver through the delivery engine 26, for
example. For example, the owner of placements in a television show may
offer for sale at least one placement in a designated show at a particular
point during the show. A value may be assigned to the placement based on
the type of placement offered and the number of views the placement is
expected to have, for example. A buyer or media owner may review the
parameters of the placement and purchase the placement for use with a
particular asset. If the placement is not well understood through textual
explanation or visual cues, the placement, with or without usage of the
asset, may be reviewed by the media owner before final acceptance of the
placement occurs.
[0040] Furthermore, the present invention may track the various metrics
surrounding the placement before and after placement. Such metrics may
allow for a more refined valuing of the placement offered and may allow for
a variety of payment options between the media and placement owners, for
example. The metrics tracked for this purpose may be viewership ratings,
demographic response, syndication rights, content and/or genre of the
media, and delivery method on which the media is based or is likely to be
viewed or heard, for example. Such an array of metrics not only allows for a
refined estimation of value for the original placement offer, but may also
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facilitate the offering of deferred payment structured placements. For
example, a placement owner my collect a fee from a media owner and may
collect a continuous fee based on the repeating play nature of re-runs
and/or syndication, for example.
[0041] The metrics gathered may also produce a "ratings score" which may be
used
by the media holder to value and plan potential placements across a
spectrum of available and non-available placements. The ratings score thus
takes into account a comparison of placements available through the
provided marketplace with those otherwise made available through
traditional outlets. This outward view to the total of available placements in
the industry at large provides users of the system with a more refined and
objective understanding of the value and coverage of the placements being
made, thus increasing the confidence users of the marketplace have in the
valuations made by the system.
[0042] Furthermore, the recommendation engine 20 may provide the user with
suggested placements or media which may be optimal in terms of
maximizing the value and coverage of each product placement. The
recommendations made may be approved or denied by a user, and may be
modified in that more than one placement option may be suggested. For
example, the recommendation engine 20 may recommend a "fall" schedule
of placements that would account for previous placements and budgets
applied by the media owner, and the availability and prior consents by the
placement owner. The recommendation engine 20 may also query each
party to understand current needs and constraints in order to suggest a
placement schedule in-line with known parameters. As would be expected,
any direct input by users of the system may be used by the
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recommendation engine 20 to suggest various placements at any point
during a given period. For example, if there is a discounted placement that
would fit a particular product, the media owner may be alerted to the
favorable placement.
[0043] In an embodiment of the present invention, and as illustrated in
Figure 4, a
method of providing content may be provided, which may comprise
receiving a stream comprising media content, chunking the received stream
into media snippets of a predetermined length, wherein each media snippet
is keyed to at least one keyword, automatically, and substantially
commensurate with said receiving of the stream, generating a transcript for
each of the media snippets, providing the transcript, and the media snippet
uniquely corresponded thereto, for access by a user. The media content
may also consist of audio and the media content may comprise video, for
example. The predetermined length may be one of three, five, or seven
minutes, for example. Similarly, the present invention may allow for posting
to the cloud and/or providing an html link in a browser window. The present
invention may also comprise at least a springing a secondary browser
window substantially consisting of a transcript and a search engine results
window, responsive to a search by the user. The present invention may
also comprise a native providing of the transcript and the media snippet,
absent generation of intermediate content to enable said providing.
[0044] In an embodiment of the present invention, a method of publishing
content
may comprise publishing a content stream comprising at least audio content
and keywords indicative of the audio content to a transcription engine for
transcription of the audio content, matching the audio content uniquely to
the transcription, allowing for the providing of at least the audio content
and,
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distinct therefrom, the matched transcription, to a requesting user at a time
substantially commensurate with said publishing.
[0045] In an
embodiment of the present invention, a method of providing social
media content may comprise receiving a plurality of streams, each
comprising media content, assessing at least one keyword relevant to each
of the plurality of streams, programmatically channelizing each of the
plurality of received streams into a plurality of channels based upon the
respective at least one keyword, automatically, and
substantially
commensurate in time with said programmatically channelizing, generating
a transcript for each of the channels, providing the transcript, and the
channel uniquely corresponded thereto, for access by a user as the social
media content. Such an embodiment may also allow for assessing at least
one trend according to appearances of the at least one keyword across
multiple ones of the plurality of streams. The appearances may comprise a
quantitative number of appearances and or a qualitative assessment of
appearances.
[0046] In an
embodiment of the present invention, a method of receiving content
may comprising receiving a plurality of streams, each comprising media
content, receiving an indication of at least one keyword relevant to each of
the plurality of streams, wherein the indication further comprises at least
one
trend related to the at least one keyword, programmatically channelizing, for
ultimate consumption by a social media user, of each of the plurality of
received streams into a plurality of channels based upon the respective at
least one trend, receiving a transcript for each of the channels for ultimate
consumption by the social media user substantially commensurate in time
with the ultimate consumption by the social media user of the channel.
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[0047] The present invention may provide a non-transitory computing system
comprising code for execution by at least one computing processor, wherein
execution of the code by the at least one processor provides an audio
content layer capable of receiving a plurality of audio streams, a broadcast
layer capable of transceiving broadcasted ones of the plurality of audio
streams over at least three different broadcast means, an application
programming interface (API) layer capable of manipulating broadcasted
ones of the plurality of audio streams to provide a plurality of end-user
applications, wherein the manipulating comprises at least a transcription of
at least portions of each of the broadcasted ones of the plurality of audio
streams and at least one selected from the group consisting of a
quantitative appearance in the portions of each of the broadcasted ones of
the plurality of audio streams, a qualitative appearance in the portions of
each of the broadcasted ones of the plurality of audio streams, a geography
of interest in the portions of each of the broadcasted ones of the plurality
of
audio streams, a geography of generation of the portions of each of the
broadcasted ones of the plurality of audio streams, an audience profile of
the portions of each of the broadcasted ones of the plurality of audio
streams, and a verification of the content of the portions of each of the
broadcasted ones of the plurality of audio streams.
[0048] The present invention may provide a non-transitory computing system
comprising code for execution by at least one computing processor, wherein
execution of the code by the at least one processor provides a media asset
conversion comprising the steps of receiving a stream comprising media
content, chunking the received stream into media snippets of a
predetermined length, wherein each media snippet is keyed to at least one
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keyword, automatically, and substantially commensurate with said receiving
of the stream, generating a transcript for each of the media snippets,
providing the transcript, and the media snippet uniquely corresponded
thereto, for access by a user.
[0049] Those of
skill in the art will appreciate that the herein described systems
and methods may be subject to various modifications and alternative
constructions. There is no intention to limit the scope of the invention to
the specific constructions described herein. Rather, the herein described
systems and methods are intended to cover all modifications, alternative
constructions, and equivalents falling within the scope and spirit of the
invention and its equivalents.
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