Apparatus, System, and Method for Integrating Content and Content Services
AssigneeClip Interactive, LLC
InventorsJeffrey Thramann, Michael Lawless, Jeff Osborn
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Abstract
A system and method for providing seamless consumption of media content and managing playlists for seamless consumption of media is described. One embodiment includes receiving a request for media content; determining a mode of consumption for the media content; determining a media content service to provide the media content; and providing the media content according to the preferred mode of consumption and from the preferred service and managing playlists to integrate reproduction of media content from multiple services.
Claims21
-19. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving a request for specified media content through a media player graphic interface of a media player application;
- evaluating, by the media player application, a plurality of source channels to determine availability of the specified media content;
- in response to an identification of a first source channel of the plurality of source channels, wherein the first source channel has availability of the specified media content, requesting the specified media content from the first source channel;
- and
- playing, by the media player application, the specified media using the media player graphic interface regardless of the source channel that has availability of the specified media content.
A method comprising:
- for each of a plurality of media content included on a playlist stored with a media player application and managed by a graphic interface of the media player application:
- evaluating, by the media player application, a plurality of source channels to determine availability of a current media content;
- and
- in response to an identification of a first source channel that has availability of the current media content, linking a corresponding playlist entry to the current media content from the first source channel;
- and
- in response to selection of a first playlist entry:
- requesting, by the media player application, a first media content from a source channel linked to the first playlist entry;
- and
- playing the first media content corresponding to the first playlist entry using the graphic interface.
A system comprising:
- a media player graphic interface embodied on a display device, the media player graphic interface configured to receive a request for specified media content;
- and
- a media player application stored in memory and configured to receive user input via the media player graphic interface, the media player application configured to evaluate a plurality of source channels to determine availability of the specified media content, wherein in response to an identification of a first source channel of the plurality of source channels wherein the first source channel has availability of the specified media content the media player application is configured to request the specified media content from the first source channel and then play the specified media through the media player graphic interface regardless of the source channel that has availability of the specified media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.