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US 2020/0053430 A1Published application
Using manifest files to determine events in content items
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsMike Burke, Bryan Pauk
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Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatuses are described for monitoring events in a plurality of different services. A system may monitor manifest files for one or more content items. Manifest files may contain manifest file tags indicating events and insertion opportunities. Events and/or insertion opportunities may be detected, and a switch from one content item to another content item, based on customized user priority preferences, may be caused.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, content preference information indicating a first content item and a second content item;
- receiving a manifest file for the first content item, wherein the manifest file comprises a plurality of entries, and wherein each entry, of the plurality of entries, comprises:
- a pointer to an associated portion of the first content item, and
- a manifest file tag for the associated portion of the first content item;
- determining, from the manifest file, a first entry, of the plurality of entries, indicating an upcoming portion of the first content item;
- and
- based on determining that an associated manifest file tag for the first entry indicates an insertion opportunity, switching to the second content item.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, content preference information associated with a user device;
- determining, based on the content preference information, a plurality of content streams;
- receiving, a plurality of manifest files associated with the plurality of content streams, wherein each of the plurality of manifest files comprises a plurality of entries associated with a plurality of content segments, and wherein each of the entries comprises:
- a pointer to an associated content segment, and
- an event tag indicating an event type occurring in the associated content segment;
- determining, from the plurality of manifest files and based on the content preference information, a first entry;
- and
- causing, based on the first entry, the user device to switch output from a current content stream to a second content stream associated with the first entry.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, from a user device, a request associated with a manifest file associated with a content stream, wherein the content stream comprises a plurality of content segments;
- creating the manifest file comprising a plurality of pointers, wherein each pointer, of the plurality of pointers, indicates a network location storing an associated content segment of the plurality of content segments;
- sending, to the user device, the manifest file comprising the plurality of pointers;
- determining, based on processing a first content segment from the plurality of content segments, a first event tag associated with a first event occurring in the first content segment;
- creating, based on the first event tag, an update to a first pointer, of the plurality of pointers, associated with the first content segment;
- and
- sending, to the user device, the update to the first pointer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.