US 2019/0174197 A1 · USER CONTROLLED MULTI-DEVICE MEDIA-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM

Abstract

A method for providing configurable access to media in a media-on-demand system also can include delivering the media to a first client device in a format compatible with the first client device; interrupting the delivery of the media; recording a bookmark specifying a position in the media where the interruption occurred; and suming delivery of the media to a second client device, the resumed delivery beginning at a position in the media specified by the recorded bookmark. The method further can include identifying device properties for each of the first and second client devices; delivering the media to the first client device in a format compatible with the identified device properties for the first client device; and, delivering the media to the second client device in a format compatible with the identified device properties for the second client device.

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Dependent claims

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A system for resuming transmission of a video, to a device, from a point preceding a point in the video at which the video was paused at another device, the system comprising:

a first video receiving device configured to:
transmit a first request for a video, wherein the first request comprises a user identifier;
cause the video to be displayed;
and
transmit a second request to pause the video at a pause point in the video;
a second video receiving device configured to:
transmit a third request, including the user identifier, to resume the video from the pause point;
and
cause the video to be displayed;
a media-on-demand server configured to:
receive, from the first video receiving device, the first request for the video;
receive, from the first video receiving device, the second request to pause the video;
based on the second request to pause the video:
calculate a time code that precedes the pause point by subtracting a time offset from the pause point;
transform, in a memory of the media-on-demand server, a data structure associated with the user identifier to include an identifier of the video, the user identifier, and the calculated time code;
receive, from the second video receiving device, the third request to resume the video from the pause point;
based on the third request to resume the video from the pause point:
retrieve, from the memory, based on the user identifier, the data structure associated with the user identifier;
identify, based on the time code in the data structure, a resume point in the video;
and
transmit the video, beginning from the resume point, to the second video receiving device.

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A system for resuming transmission of a video, to a device, from a point preceding a point in the video at which the video was paused at another device, the system comprising:

a first video receiving device configured to:
transmit a first request for a video, wherein the first request comprises user identifier;
cause the video to be displayed;
and
transmit a second request to pause the video at a pause point in the video;
a second video receiving device configured to:
transmit a third request, including the user identifier, to resume the video from the pause point;
and
cause the video to be displayed;
a media-on-demand server configured to:
receive, from the first video receiving device, the first request for the video;
receive, from the first video receiving device, the second request to pause the video;
based on the second request to pause the video:
transform, in a memory of the media-on-demand server, a data structure associated with the user identifier to include an identifier of the video, the user identifier, and a time code associated with the pause point;
receive, from the second video receiving device, the third request to resume the video from the pause point;
based on the third request to resume the video from the pause point:
retrieve, from the memory, based on the user identifier, the data structure associated with the user identifier;
identify the time code associated with the pause point in the data structure;
calculate a resumption point that precedes the time code by subtracting a time offset from the time code;
and
transmit the video, beginning from the resumption point, to the second video receiving device.

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A method for resuming transmission of a video, to a device, from a point preceding a point in the video at which the video was paused at another device, the method comprising:

receiving, at a media-on-demand server, from a first video receiving device, a first request for the video, wherein the first request comprises a user identifier;
transmitting, from the media-on-demand server, the video for display on a display screen coupled to the first video receiving device;
receiving, at the media-on-demand server, from the first video receiving device, a second request to pause the video at a pause point in the video;
based on the second request to pause the video:
calculating a time code that precedes the pause point by subtracting a time offset from the pause point;
transforming, in a memory of the media-on-demand server, a data structure associated with the user identifier to include an identifier of the video, the user identifier, and the calculated time code;
receiving, at the media-on-demand server, from a second video receiving device, a third request, including the user identifier, to resume the video from the pause point;
based on the third request to resume the video from the pause point:
retrieving, from the memory, based on the user identifier, the data structure associated with the user identifier;
identifying, based on the time code in the data structure, a resume point in the video;
and
transmitting the video, beginning from the resume point, from the media-on-demand server to the second video receiving device.

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A method for resuming transmission of a video, to a device, from a point preceding a point in the video at which the video was paused at another device, the method comprising:

receiving, at a media-on-demand server, from a first video receiving device, a first request for the video, wherein the first request comprises a user identifier;
transmitting, from the media-on-demand server, the video for display on a display screen coupled to the first video receiving device;
receiving, at the media-on-demand server, from the first video receiving device, a second request to pause the video at a pause point in the video;
based on the second request to pause the video:
transforming, in a memory of the media-on-demand server, a data structure associated with the user identifier to include an identifier of the video, the user identifier, and a time code associated with the pause point;
receiving, at the media-on-demand server, from a second video receiving device, a third request, including the user identifier, to resume the video from the pause point;
based on the third request to resume the video from the pause point:
retrieving, from the memory based on the user identifier, the data structure associated with the user identifier;
identifying the time code associated with the pause point in the data structure;
calculating a resumption point that precedes the time code by subtracting a time offset from the time code;
and
transmitting the video, beginning from the resumption point, to the second video receiving device.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/196,112Filed 20 Nov 2018

Priority

29 Sep 2000

Published

6 Jun 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 21/47217
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
H04N 7/17318
Transmission or handling of upstream communications: direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
H04N 21/23109
Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion: by…
H04N 21/2343
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving reformatting…

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User controlled multi-device media-on-demand system

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