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US 10,257,555 B2Granted
TV playlist
AssigneeTime Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
InventorsDavid Chen, Vipul Patel, Jian Yu, John Chen, Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum
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Abstract
A playlist server application is provided on a server at a first network node. A playlist local application is provided for a remote device. An indication of a change to a playlist on one of the server and the remote device is obtained from a corresponding one of the playlist server application and the playlist local application. The change is synchronized to another one of the server and the remote device.
Claims6
A method comprising the steps of:
- providing a playlist server application on a server;
- and
- persisting a playlist on said server via said playlist server application, wherein said playlist on said server is a first copy playlist, said playlist in turn comprising at least one content item from each of:
- a multi-service operator system;
- and
- a location outside said multi-service operator system;
- and
- obtaining, by said playlist server application, an indication of a change to said playlist from one of said playlist server application and a playlist local application from a remote device;
- identifying a most current version of said playlist on one of said server and said remote device, wherein said most current version of said playlist includes said change;
- and
- synchronizing said change to one of said first copy playlist on said server and a second copy of said playlist stored on said remote device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one hardware processor;
- at least one memory coupled to said at least one hardware processor;
- and
- a playlist application software module, embodied on a non-transitory tangible computer-readable recordable storage medium;
- wherein:
- said playlist application software module, when loaded into said memory, causes said at least one hardware processor to construct a playlist on said apparatus, wherein said playlist is a first copy playlist comprising at least one content item from each of:
- a multi-service operator system;
- and
- a location outside said multi-service operator system;
- and
- obtaining, by said playlist application software module, an indication of a change to said playlist from one of said playlist server application and a playlist local application from a remote device;
- identifying that said change corresponds to a most current version of said playlist on one of said server and said remote device, wherein said most current version of said playlist includes said change;
- and
- synchronizing said change to one of said first copy playlist on said server and a second copy of said playlist stored on said remote device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.