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Eric Barsness (5 months ago)
There are a variety of patents and applications pending related to viewing different versions of a video program. They aren't focussed on the editing/assembling part as much as the viewing part. There seems to be some strong art on the assembling pieces. As for the viewing, take a look at www.clearplay.com (and search on MovieMask, which is no longer active but did something similar) where you can watch a standed DVD with a "profile" to see an edited version (without objectional content for example). The patents and apps I mentioned are US6813438, US6889383, and US20060101487A1. The second patent discusses "reframing" content, so is not just skipping parts (it is one of ClearPlay's patents).Lisa Seacat (6 months ago)
Regarding Claim 00002
This idea reminds me a lot of those "Choose your own adventure" books. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
Where you get to a point in the story line and you get to decide what the character does. Based on your decision the outcome of the story changes. So if you decide for the character to take door #1 then they have a different adventure than they would've under door #2.
Applying this idea to movies playing different clips based on user selection seems novel and very interesting. Could change the way the movie going experience is currently today. The audience could vote as a whole on which option to select. Manuel Perez (6 months ago)
The only difference I see between the present invention and the known prior art is the fact that the user can select between different "cuts" of the movie and that feature does not appear to be "technical" (because it has to do only with the video stream content); I think therefore, that from the technical point of view, the invention is not new and/or inventive. PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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