Personalized content
AssigneeOath Inc.
InventorGilbert G. Weigand
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Abstract
A media switch enables a terminal to access content by receiving a content request from a terminal for a first piece of content to be distributed over a cable system, identifying a personal channel within resources available in the cable system to distribute the first piece of content to the terminal, transmitting access information to the terminal to enable the terminal to access the first piece of content through the personal channel, and interfacing with a cable headend to provide the first piece of content on the personal channel.
Claims20
A method of providing multimedia content to a terminal device, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors:
- providing a channel over a network to distribute multimedia content to one or more terminal devices;
- determining the state of resources and allocating a frequency or PID pair to the one or more terminal devices based on the state of resources;
- transmitting reusable access information associated with the channel from a media switch to the terminal device;
- transmitting the multimedia content from the media switch to a network device;
- detecting at least one of a user command or a pause command from the terminal device;
- tracking which data units have been received;
- and
- replying to the detected user command based on scheduling of the multimedia content.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a storage device that stores a set of instructions;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the storage device, the set of instructions configuring the at least one processor to:
- provide a channel over a network to distribute multimedia content to one or more terminal devices;
- determine the state of resources and allocate a frequency or PID pair to the one or more terminal devices based on the state of resources;
- transmit, from a media switch to the terminal device, reusable access information associated with the channel;
- transmit, from the media switch to a network device, the multimedia content;
- detect at least one of a user command or a pause command from the terminal device;
- tracking which data units have been received;
- and
- reply, based on scheduling of the multimedia content, to the detected user command.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
- providing a channel over a network to distribute multimedia content to one or more terminal devices;
- determining the state of resources and allocating a frequency or PID pair to the one or more terminal devices based on the state of resources;
- transmitting, from a media switch to the terminal device, reusable access information associated with the channel;
- transmitting, from the media switch to a network device, the multimedia content;
- detecting at least one of a user command or a pause command from the terminal device;
- tracking which data units have been received;
- and
- replying, based on scheduling of the multimedia content, to the detected user command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.