Delivery of encoded media content
AssigneeTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
InventorsArjun Ramamurthy, Kai Tao Huang
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Abstract
A, method, apparatus, system, computer readable medium, and article of manufacture provide the ability to deliver a media content deliverable. Media content is selected. One or more clients that will receive the selected media content are selected. Independently from additional user input, one or more files are automatically and dynamically selected based on the selected media content and one or more selected clients. The selected files are scheduled for delivery to the clients. Delivery of the one or more files to the selected one or more clients is then confirmed.
Claims27
A computer implemented method for delivering a media content deliverable, comprising:
- (a) selecting the media content;
- (b) selecting one or more clients that will receive the selected media content;
- (c) independently from additional user input, automatically and dynamically selecting one or more files based on the selected media content and one or more selected clients;
- (d) scheduling the one or more files for delivery to the selected one or more clients;
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- (e) confirming delivery of the one or more files to the selected one or more clients.
A system for delivering a media content deliverable in a computer system comprising:
- (a) a computer having a memory;
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- (b) an application executing on the computer, wherein the application is configured to:
- (i) select the media content;
- (ii) select one or more clients that will receive the selected media content;
- (iii) independently from additional user input, automatically and dynamically select one or more files based on the selected media content and one or more selected clients;
- (iv) schedule the one or more files for delivery to the selected one or more clients;
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- (v) confirm delivery of the one or more files to the selected one or more clients.
A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions which when accessed by a computer cause the computer to load the program instructions to a memory therein creating a special purpose data structure causing the computer to operate as a specially programmed computer, executing a method of delivering a media content deliverable, comprising:
- (a) selecting, in the specially programmed computer, the media content;
- (b) selecting, in the specially programmed computer, one or more clients that will receive the selected media content;
- (c) independently from additional user input, automatically and dynamically selecting, in the specially programmed computer, one or more files based on the selected media content and one or more selected clients;
- (d) scheduling, in the specially programmed computer, the one or more files for delivery to the selected one or more clients;
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- (e) confirming, in the specially programmed computer, delivery of the one or more files to the selected one or more clients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.