US 12,356,047 B2
Method and system for multi-dimensional searching of video content via an interactive grid matrix
Christopher Bailey, Ojai, CA (US); and Charles Lee Hamilton, Fort Bragg, CA (US)
Assigned to INTENSION Inc., Ojai, CA (US)
Filed by Christopher Bailey, Ojai, CA (US); and Charles Lee Hamilton, Fort Bragg, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,746.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/276,629, filed on Nov. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0348887 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4821 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/854 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method executed by one or more computing devices for performing a multi-dimensional search of video content accessible by a viewer thereof via an interactive navigation grid matrix to be displayed via a user interface to the viewer, the method comprising:
providing, via the user interface, a plurality of cells adapted to receive the video content so as to build out the interactive navigation grid matrix, the video content to be received for building out the interactive navigation grid matrix being non-live program video content, the plurality of cells including:
a plurality of differently named chapters of the video content,
a plurality of differently named subchapters associated with each chapter, each subchapter representing a sub-title of video content that is different from video content represented by the other differently named subchapters under their corresponding chapter, the plurality of chapters and subchapters forming headers of the plurality of cells in a multiple column by multiple row arrangement as two dimensions of the interactive navigation grid matrix,
a plurality of containers of video content associated with each subchapter, the containers representing a third dimension of an enhanced three-dimensional interactive navigation grid matrix, each of the containers accessible within a corresponding subchapter of a given corresponding chapter, and
a plurality of nodes of video snippets associated with each container under a given subchapter,
displaying via the user interface the enhanced three-dimensional interactive navigation grid matrix for the viewer, and
enabling a viewer to conduct a multi-dimensional search of the video content,
the providing, displaying and enabling steps being performed by computer software adapted to run on computer hardware.