- Number
- 10353945
- Published
- 2019-07-16
- Filed
- 2016-06-30
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Hedinsson; Skarphedinn et al.
- CPC
- H04L65/613; H04L65/612; G06F16/44; G06F16/48
- Verdict
- Set aside streaming media contents based on attribute tags, streaming
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
Abstract
There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing a media library including an ordered plurality of media contents, each including a plurality of attribute tags, and a hardware processor configured to provide a user interface for display on a user device for navigating the media contents, receive a user input from the user device for playing one or more of the ordered media contents based on a first attribute tag of the plurality of attribute tags, stream a first portion of a first media content to the user device, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input, and stream a second portion of a second media content to the user device following the first portion of the first media content, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input.
Background
BACKGROUND(1) Television shows, movies, and other media contents typically include elements that appear in more than one episode, including storylines that span multiple episodes, characters that appear in more than one episode, story archetypes that appear in more than one episode, etc. Media contents are conventionally presented such that a scene portraying one storyline follows a scene from a different storyline, where each storyline may include some of the same characters and/or different characters. Alternating between various storylines allows media contents to portray scenes that happen at the same time, but in different locations, without breaking the continuity of the story. Presentation of multiple storylines in alternating scenes also allows characters to cross between the various storylines in the media content. However, viewing media contents in the conventional manner may cause the viewer to forget or miss details from one scene that are important to a storyline before the media content presents the next scene from that storyline.SUMMARY(2) The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for streaming media contents based on attribute tags, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
Claims
1. A system comprising: a non-transitory memory storing a media library including an ordered plurality of media contents, each of the ordered plurality of media contents including a plurality of attribute tags; a hardware processor configured to: provide a user interface for display on a user device for navigating the ordered plurality of media contents, wherein each of the ordered plurality of media contents has a hierarchy of acts each including one or more scenes each having a scene attribute tag, wherein each of the one or more scenes includes (a) one or more storylines each having a storyline attribute tag, (b) one or more locations each having a location attribute tag, and (c) characters each having a character attribute tag and one or more character relationship tags, wherein each of the character relationship tags indicates a relationship of its corresponding character with another one of the characters; receive a user input from the user device for playing one or more media contents of the ordered plurality of media contents selecting a first attribute tag of the plurality of attribute tags, wherein the first attribute tag is one of the character relationship tags; stream a first scene of a first media content of the media library to the user device for playing on a display, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input, wherein the first scene includes the corresponding character and the another character based on the one of the character relationship tags; and stream a second scene of a second media content of the media library to the user device for playing on the display linearly following the first scene of the first media content, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input rather than based on a time code for a next scene following the first scene in the first media content, wherein the second scene includes the corresponding character and the another character based on the one of the character relationship tags. |
10. A method for use with a system including a media library having an ordered plurality of media contents, a non-transitory memory and a hardware processor, the method comprising: providing, using the hardware processor, a user interface for display on a user device for navigating the plurality of media contents, wherein each of the ordered plurality of media contents has a hierarchy of acts each including one or more scenes each having a scene attribute tag, wherein each of the one or more scenes includes (a) one or more storylines each having a storyline attribute tag, (b) one or more locations each having a location attribute tags and (c) characters each having a character attribute tag and one or more character relationship tags, wherein each of the character relationship tags indicates a relationship of its corresponding character with another one of the characters; receiving, using the hardware processor, a user input from the user device for playing one or more media contents of the ordered plurality of media contents selecting a first attribute tag of the plurality of attribute tags, wherein the first attribute tag is one of the character relationship tags; streaming, using the hardware processor, a first scene of a first media content of the media library to the user device for playing on a display, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input, wherein the first scene includes the corresponding character and the another character based on the one of the character relationship tags; and streaming, using the hardware processor, a second scene of a second media content of the media library to the user device for playing on the display following the first scene of the first media content, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input rather than based on a time code for a next scene following the first scene in the first media content, wherein the second scene includes the corresponding character and the another character based on the one of the character relationship tags.