Patent 7640272 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Audio/video (A/V) content is analyzed using speech and language analysis components. Metadata is automatically generated based upon the analysis. The metadata is used in generating user interface interaction components which allow a user to view subject matter in various segments of the A/V content and to interact with the A/V content based on the automatically generated metadata.