Media environment driven content distribution platform
AssigneeSource Digital, Inc.
InventorsHenry Lawrence Frecon, III, Patrick Clay Greene, Michael Eric Phillips, Timothy J. Carroll
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Abstract
A method for a media environment driven content distribution platform includes obtaining synchronization data derived from the content and ancillary data pegged to instants in the synchronization data derived from the content, and communicating the synchronization data derived from the content and the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content such that subsequent alignment of the synchronization data derived from the content to the content synchronizes the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to the content.
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A machine or group of machines for a media environment driven content distribution platform, comprising:
- a pre-synchronizer configured to obtain ancillary data and synchronization data derived from the content's audio and is different from the content's audio, and to peg the ancillary data to instants in the synchronization data derived from the content such that subsequent alignment of the synchronization data derived from the content to the content at a user's premises synchronizes the ancillary data, pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content, to the content, the ancillary data including event data that drives the distribution of specific objects of the ancillary data based on the media environment;
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- a transceiver configured to communicate the synchronization data derived from the content and the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to a storage location,
- wherein the ancillary data includes a first ancillary data object and a second ancillary data object that are both pegged to a same instant in the synchronization data, and the event data indicates that the first ancillary data object and not the second ancillary data object is to be distributed based on the media environment.
A machine or group of machines for a media environment driven content distribution platform, comprising:
- a transceiver configured to obtain the content, synchronization data derived from the content's audio and is different from the content's audio, and ancillary data pegged to instants in the synchronization data derived from the content, the ancillary data including event data that drives the distribution of specific objects of the ancillary data based on the media environment;
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- a post-synchronizer configured to align the synchronization data derived from the content to the content thereby synchronizing the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to the content,
- wherein the ancillary data includes a first ancillary data object and a second ancillary data object pegged to a first instant in the synchronization data and the event data indicates that the first ancillary data object and not the second ancillary data object is to be distributed based on the media environment.
A machine or group of machines for a media environment driven content distribution platform, comprising:
- a database configured to store synchronization data derived from the content's audio and is different from the content's audio, and ancillary data pegged to instants in the synchronization data derived from the content such that subsequent alignment of the synchronization data derived from the content to the content synchronizes the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to the content, the ancillary data including event data that drives the distribution of specific objects of the ancillary data based on the media environment;
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- a transceiver configured to communicate the synchronization data derived from the content and the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content,
- wherein the ancillary data includes a first ancillary data object and a second ancillary data object each pegged to a first instant in the synchronization data, and the event data indicates that the first ancillary data object and not the second ancillary data object is to be distributed based on the media environment.
A method for a media environment driven content distribution platform, the method comprising:
- obtaining synchronization data derived from the content and ancillary data pegged to instants in the synchronization data derived from the content's audio and is different from the content's audio, the ancillary data including event data that drives the distribution of specific objects of the ancillary data based on the media environment;
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- communicating the synchronization data derived from the content and the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content such that subsequent alignment of the synchronization data derived from the content to the content synchronizes the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to the content,
- wherein the ancillary data includes a first ancillary data object and a second ancillary data object both pegged to a same instant in the synchronization data, and the event data causes the first ancillary data object and not the second ancillary data object is to be distributed based on the media environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.