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US 10,567,822 B2Granted
Providing streamed content responsive to request
AssigneePiksel, Inc.
InventorsPhilip Shaw, Peter Heiland, Sean Everett, Ralf Wilhelm Tilmann, Hans-Jurgen Maas, Miles Weaver
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Abstract
There is disclosed a server for providing content, the server being configured to: receive a request defining one or more characteristics of content; access content from a plurality of content sources; and determine content responsive to the request in dependence on the accessed content.
Claims19
A server for providing content, the server being configured to:
- receive a viewing request for desired content from a content viewing device, the viewing request for desired content defining one or more characteristics of the desired content;
- identify a plurality of capture devices which are likely candidates for fulfilling the viewing request for the desired content based on the characteristics of the desired content;
- transmit a capture request for captured content to the identified plurality of capture devices;
- receive captured content from at least one of the plurality of capture devices;
- determine content to be delivered responsive to the viewing request in dependence on the received captured content, by comparing the received captured content to the one or more characteristics of the desired content;
- and
- transmit the content to be delivered to the content viewing device.
4 more elements
A method for providing content, the method comprising:
- receiving a viewing request for desired content from a content viewing device, the viewing request for desired content defining one or more characteristics of the desired content;
- identifying a plurality of capture devices which are likely candidates for fulfilling the viewing request for the desired content based on the characteristics of the desired content;
- transmitting a capture request for captured content to the identified plurality of capture devices;
- receiving captured content from at least one of the plurality of content capture devices;
- determining content to be delivered responsive to the viewing request in dependence on the received captured content, by comparing the received captured content to the one or more characteristics of the desired content;
- and
- transmitting the content to be delivered to the content viewing device.
4 more elements
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to provide content, the providing of content comprising:
- receiving a viewing request for desired content from a content viewing device, the viewing request for desired content defining one or more characteristics of the desired content;
- identifying a plurality of capture devices which are likely candidates for fulfilling the viewing require for the desired content based on the characteristics of the desired content;
- transmitting a capture request for captured content to the identified plurality of capture devices;
- receiving the captured content from at least one of the plurality of capture devices;
- determining content to be delivered responsive to the viewing request in dependence on the received captured content, by comparing the received captured content to the one or more characteristics of the desired content;
- and
- transmitting the content to be delivered to the content viewing device.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.