eClips: A new personalised multimedia delivery service

This article presents a new multimedia personalisation service that automat ically extracts multimedia content segments (electronic clips-called eClips ), based on individual preferences (key terms/words, content source, etc.) -which the user identifies in a profile. User profiles are stored in the se rvice platform and continually checked against new content in the system. W hen matches are found between a user profile and the content, the service p latform alerts the user that segments have been identified and extracted. T he user may then view/play these automatically provided segments (eClips). In addition, the eClips service stitches the clips of diverse sources toget her, providing an automatically-generated multimedia experience that revolv es around the user's provided profile.