US Patent 11991425 Multimedia stream enhancement and tailored processing

Multimedia stream enhancement includes automatically analyzing a multimedia stream and identifying items of interest therein, building metadata, about the stream, that describes the identified items of interest and includes indications of each item of interest and a respective location of that item of interest, providing, by a stream producer device, the stream and the metadata to stream consumer devices, receiving feedback from at least one stream consumer device as the stream producer device provides the stream to the at least one stream consumer device, and using the feedback to generate updated metadata about the stream for provision to one or more stream consumer devices of the stream consumer devices.