Web-based personalization and management of interactive video

This paper describes an application framework for providing and managing personalized, interactive video on the web. The application framework enables content providers and aggregators to stream personalized content to end-users. The server stores video and multimedia content that is structured and profiled. The content profile is matched against an end-user's interest profile to determine which parts of the video to include and what hotspots and hyperlinks to provide to the user. The server generates SMIL files that represent the personalized content and returns their unique URLs to the client when responding to end-user requests. This paper also describes how the application framework is implemented by the HotStreams system. HotStreams is implemented using the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). HotStreams is eCommerce and micropayment enabled and provides the means for content providers to specify the value of the content down to the level of individual video clips. This allows ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Rune Hjelsvold, Subu Vdaygiri, Yves Léauté
• Keywords: Dynamic Content Generation, Enable Content Managers, Internet Technology, Personalized Content, WWW 2001