US 2016/0112754 A1 · VIDEO-ON-DEMAND CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SERVICES TO TV SERVICE SUBSCRIBERS

Abstract

A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. The templates include those for higher-order displays which have one or more links to lower-order displays of specific content. The VOD Application Server, in response to viewer request, displays a high-order templatized display, and in response to viewer selection of a link, displays the lower-order display of specific content. A web-based Content Management System receives content uploaded online in file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area specified by the uploaded metadata.

Claims15

Dependent claims

1-18. (canceled)

A method for web-based content management for use with one or more computers, comprising:

(a) receiving, at the one or more computers from a content provider device via the Internet, at least the following digital content:
(i) a video content, along with
(ii) respective content-characterizing data comprising:
(1) respective title information comprising a respective title,
(2) respective content provider designated hierarchically arranged category information and subcategory information to specify a location of the respective title information for the video content in an interactive user interface of a predetermined video-on-demand application, said content provider designated category and subcategory information associated with the respective title information of the video content using a same hierarchical structure of categories and subcategories for placement of respective title information of associated video content as is to be used in the interactive user interface of the predetermined video-on-demand application;
(b) screening the video content for objectionable content to determine whether to include or reject from inclusion the video content;
and, if the screening of the video content determines that the video content is to be included, performing the following additional steps comprising:
(c) encoding, at the one or more computers, the video content to an encoded video content file in a format capable of playback on the predetermined video-on-demand application;
(d) generating, at the one or more computers, associated video-on-demand application-readable metadata for the encoded video content file by converting at least a portion of the content-characterizing data into a format readable by the predetermined video-on-demand application so that the associated metadata can be used with the encoded video content file in order to specify the respective title and the location of the converted video content in the interactive user interface of the predetermined video-on-demand application presenting the respective title information in a hierarchical ordering according to the received content provider designated hierarchically arranged category information and subcategory information so that the video content is locatable by a television user when using the predetermined video-on-demand application offered by a digital television service provider system;
and
(e) transmitting, by the one or more computers, directly or indirectly, the encoded video content file and the associated video-on-demand application-readable metadata from the web-based content management system to the predetermined video-on-demand application for inclusion at the specified location in the hierarchical ordering.

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A method for web-based content management for use with one or more computers, comprising:

(a) receiving, at the one or more computers from a content provider device via the Internet, at least the following digital content:
(i) a video content, along with
(ii) respective content-characterizing data comprising:
(1) respective title information comprising a respective title,
(2) respective content provider designated hierarchically arranged category information and subcategory information to specify a location of the respective title information for the video content in an interactive user interface of a predetermined video-on-demand application, said content provider designated category and subcategory information associated with the respective title information of the video content using a same hierarchical structure of categories and subcategories for placement of respective title information of associated video content as is to be used in the interactive user interface of the predetermined video-on-demand application;
(b) screening the video content for illegal content to determine whether to include or reject from inclusion the video content;
and, if the screening of the video content determines that the video content is to be included, performing the following additional steps comprising:
(c) encoding, at the one or more computers, the video content to an encoded video content file in a format capable of playback on the predetermined video-on-demand application;
(d) generating, at the one or more computers, associated video-on-demand application-readable metadata for the encoded video content file by converting at least a portion of the content-characterizing data into a format readable by the predetermined video-on-demand application so that the associated metadata can be used with the encoded video content file in order to specify the respective title and the location of the converted video content in the interactive user interface of the predetermined video-on-demand application presenting the respective title information in a hierarchical ordering according to the received content provider designated hierarchically arranged category information and subcategory information so that the video content is locatable by a television user when using the predetermined video-on-demand application offered by a digital television service provider system;
and
(e) transmitting, by the one or more computers, directly or indirectly, the encoded video content file and the associated video-on-demand application-readable metadata from the web-based content management system to the predetermined video-on-demand application for inclusion at the specified location in the hierarchical ordering.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/978,953Filed 22 Dec 2015

Priority

30 Jul 2004

Published

21 Apr 2016

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification33 codes

H04N 21/47202
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
H04N 7/17318
Transmission or handling of upstream communications: direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
H04N 21/2221
Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end: being a cable television head-end

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