Patent attributes
System for ranking segmented video files, comprising a server including a computer, said server including one or more segmented video files stored in a video database, each said segmented video file containing video information for visually reproducing at least one video object, where a video object is a visual component of the video file; an object inventory database operating on said server and containing information describing a location of said at least one video object within each of at least one image frame within at least one of the segmented video files; the server executing software indexing each segmented video file for the occurrence of at least one video object; the server executing software determining a duration of time that the at least one video object appears in each video file.