Systems and methods for automated real-time internet streaming and broadcasting

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a scheduling server, scheduling attributes for a scheduled event associated with an event at a remote location, wherein an encoder is positioned at the remote location, wherein the scheduled attributes comprises of any a start date, an end date, a start time, and end time;
• subsequent to receiving the scheduled attributes, receiving, by the scheduling server, a plurality of requests from the encoder positioned at the remote location, wherein each of the plurality of requests is an Application Programming Interface (API) call comprising a unique identifier of the encoder and at least one encoder attribute of the identified encoder;
• for each of the plurality of requests received from the encoder, determining, by the scheduling server and based on a time and date of the received request, whether the scheduled event is an active event and, if so, determining encoding parameters for the active scheduled event based at least partially on the encoder attribute provided in the request;
• based on the determination and the least one encoder attribute, sending by the scheduling server, a response to the encoder at the remote location, wherein the response comprises one of a start streaming instruction, a stop streaming instruction, or a take no action instruction, and wherein the start streaming instruction further comprises the encoding parameters for the active scheduled event;
• and
• subsequent to the sending of the start streaming instruction to the encoder, receiving, by an origin server and from the encoder, one or more media streams associated with the scheduled event at the remote location.

A real-time Internet streaming system, comprising:

• a scheduling server configured to
• receive scheduling attributes for scheduled events associated with encoders positioned at a plurality of remote locations, wherein the schedule events are one-time events, reoccurring events, or combinations thereof;
• receive a request from an encoder, wherein the encoder is one of the encoders positioned at a remote location, wherein the request is timestamped with time and date information and comprises an encoder identifier and one or more encoder attributes;
• determine whether one of the scheduled events associated with the encoder is an active scheduled event based at least in part on a comparison of the scheduling attributes with the time and date information;
• and
• respond to the request from the encoder with a streaming instruction based at least in part on whether the one of the scheduled events is an active schedule event, wherein the response comprises an encoding parameter for the active schedule event;
• and
• an origin server configured to
• receive at least one media stream transmitted by the encoder when the encoder is instructed to start streaming.