US 11,856,245 B1
Smart automatic skip mode
Charishma Chundi, Andhra Pradesh (IN); Reda Harb, Bellevue, WA (US); and Rajendra Pandey, Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/865,785.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2387 (2011.01); H04N 21/432 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2387 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4325 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
generating, at a computing device, a content item for output at a first time;
receiving a first input associated with navigating the content item;
receiving a second input to provide feedback associated with the first input;
identifying metadata associated with a plurality of segments of the content item, wherein identifying the metadata comprises:
analyzing a frame of the content item via a trained machine learning model; and
identifying, based on the analyzing, an element in the frame as the metadata;
tagging the identified metadata based on the first input and the second input;
identifying, based on the identified metadata, segments of the plurality of segments having the identified metadata as common metadata;
identifying, based on the first input, the common metadata and the tagged metadata, a subset of the plurality of segments to skip;
skipping a segment of the subset of segments;
generating the content item for output at a second time; and
for each subsequent segment of the subset of segments,
skipping a respective segment of the subset of segments as the content item progresses.