Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer conferencing – Priority based messaging
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-05
2004-09-28
Wiley, David (Department: 2143)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer conferencing
Priority based messaging
C709S201000, C709S218000, C709S219000, C709S224000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06799199
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention generally relates to media monitor page and method for creating a media monitor page and especially for a system and method for allowing users of client systems to view selected portions of information streams of interest.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A vast amount of information is generated, transferred, broadcast, transmitted and exchanged via various media and in various forms. Prior art systems and methods were not able to monitor and analyze said information in real time, in a satisfactory manner.
There is a growing need to monitor and analyze said information in real time. There is a growing need to display various information packets and streams of interest being generated by a variety of information sources and for allowing a user to view additional information from an information source that provided an information of interest.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It should be noted that the particular terms and expressions employed and the particular structural and operational details disclosed in the detailed description and accompanying drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to in any way limit the scope of the invention as described in the appended claims. The invention provides a fast, accurate, scalable without significant loss of performance method for real time alert that is maintained to be significantly current in real-time.
The term “information stream” as used herein will be understood to encompass, but not be limited to, multimedia streams, video streams, audio streams, data streams. Said information stream can be part of an internet broadcast program, radio program, television program, or any other type of program that is transmitted for reception by at least one client. Said information stream can be transmitted/broadcasted by various means and over various media, such as cables, wires, networks, satellite transmission and wireless transmission.
The invention provides a media monitor system for monitoring a content of a plurality of information streams provided by a plurality of information sources coupled to said media monitor system, said media monitor system adapted to be coupled to a plurality of client systems, said media monitor comprising: retrieval means, adapted to be coupled to the plurality of information sources, for receiving information streams from the information sources, and providing information signals representative of at least a portion of the information streams to an analysis means; distribution means, adapted to be coupled to a plurality of client systems, for receiving client queries and client requests to update or create alert criteria, and for providing client systems real time alerts and query results; and analysis means, coupled to the distribution means and to the retrieval means for storing said information signals, for real time matching of information signals against alert criteria to generate a real time alert and for real time matching of client queries against the information signals to generate query results.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the information signals are computer readable signals.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the information signals are information packets.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the distribution means comprising of: a plurality of interfaces, each interface for receiving, from at least one client system, client requests and client queries in a client system format, said client system format differs from a media monitor system compatible format, and formatting the client requests and the client queries in a monitor media system compatible format, for receiving alerts and query results in a media monitor system format, converting said received alerts and query results to the client system compatible format, and for dispatching said converted alerts and said converted query results to at least one designated client system; a client manager, coupled to said plurality of interfaces, for storing and updating client system profiles, for processing said client profiles to determine at least one parameter selected from a group consisting of: the designated client systems, a format of an alert, a format of a query result, relevant information to add to the alert, relevant information to add to the query result; a dispatcher, coupled to the client manager and to the plurality of interfaces, for receiving said at least one parameter from the client manager, to fetch relevant information from the analysis means and for providing alerts and query results client systems or said plurality of interfaces.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the distribution means further comprising of query and alert manager, for receiving client requests and client queries from the dispatcher and providing them to the analysis means;
a data builder, coupled to the dispatcher and to the analysis means, for receiving requests from the dispatcher to fetch relevant information from the analysis means, accessing the analysis means, fetching said relevant information and for providing the relevant information to the dispatcher; a history manager for storing client queries and client requests to update to create alert criteria and for client system retrieval.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the retrieval means comprising of a plurality of agents selected from a group of agents consisting of:
an agent having an audio recognition means, adapted to receive information streams comprising of audio information and to generate a stream of information packets representative of the content of the audio information; an agent having a encoder, adapted to receive information streams comprising of audio information and to generate a stream of information packets containing said audio information;
an agent having an visual recognition means, adapted to receive information streams comprising of visual information and to generate a stream of information packets representative of the content of the visual information; an agent having a encoder, adapted to receive information streams comprising of visual information and to generate a stream of information packets containing said visual information;
an agent having a parsing means, adapted to receive a stream of computer readable signals and to parse said stream to provide a plurality of information packets.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the analysis means comprising of:
a real time alert logic, for real time matching of information signals against alert criteria to generate a real time alert; and a real time search engine, for real time matching of client queries against the information signals to generate query results.
The invention provides a media monitor system further comprising data manager for storing said information signals, and for allowing the distribution means to fetch relevant information associated to information signal that caused said alert module to issue an alert.
The invention provides a media monitor system wherein the information signal is an information packet and wherein the real time search engine comprising: an information packet processor, for receiving an information packet and for processing the information packet to generate at least one processed portion of the information packet; a storage means, coupled to the information packet processor and to a storage means, for temporarily storing information representative of a reception of the at least one processed portion of the information packet, the storage means are configured to allow fast insertion and fast deletion of content; and a query and result manager, coupled to the storage means, for matching a received client query against at least a portion of a content of the storage means to generate a query result.
The invention provides a media monitor system further comprising at least one module selected from a group of modules consisting of: a message coordinator module adapted to coordinate an handling of a plurality of informa
Avni Michal
Fridman Sharon
Jaschek Boaz
Segal Edo
Mauro, Jr. Thomas J
The Relegence Corporation
Wiley David
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