US 2025/0168414 A1 · Unique Remote Experience of Live Event

Abstract

A method for providing a unique remote experience of a live event includes receiving in near real time at a headend processing system from a control center at an event location raw media data captured at a live event occurring at the event location. Copies of the raw media data from the headend processing system are disseminated in near real time to a plurality of server nodes of a geographically distributed content delivery network connected together via communication network. The raw media data is processed to produce one or more customized presentations of the live event in the form of streaming audio/video (A/V) files of one or more subsets of the raw media data pursuant to one or more data structures corresponding, respectively, to one or more subscriber accounts. The streaming A/V files are transmitted over a communication network to one or more respective subscriber presentation devices.

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Dependent claims

A user device, providing a given remote experience of a live event, comprising:

a data buffer coupled to a server;
a decoder coupled to the data buffer;
an output port coupled to the decoder and to an Audio-Video (A/V) presentation device;
a processor, coupled to the decoder;
and
a storage device coupled to the processor;
wherein the data buffer receives an A/V file stream from the server;
wherein the A/V file stream includes a video portion that corresponds to a given vantage point for a live event at a live event location;
wherein the A/V file stream is provided in near real time to the data buffer;
and
wherein the A/V file stream is decoded by the decoder and the processor and output to the A/V presentation device near real time for the live event;
and
wherein the A/V presentation device presents the live event, near real time and from the given vantage point in the live event location, to a subscriber.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium, including non-transitory computer instructions which, when executed by a processor in a user device, generates a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for presentation on a display coupled to the user device, wherein the GUI facilitates selection by a user of the user device of a video adjustment option, which adjust at least one aspect of a video portion of an Audio-Video (A/V) file stream for a live event at a live event location, wherein the video adjustment option comprises:

a given vantage point selection option;
and
wherein the given vantage point selection option facilitates selection of a given vantage point at the live event location, for virtually viewing the live event;
wherein, upon selection of the given vantage point, a server coupled to the user device requests a content distribution network (CDN) receiving multiple raw media files of the live event to provide one or more second video portions corresponding to the selected given vantage point;
and
wherein upon receipt of the one or more second video portions, the server outputs the one or more second video portions in the A/V file stream to the user device for presentation to the user, via a presentation device coupled to the user device, of the one or more second video portions occurs from the selected given vantage point.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a non-transitory data structure which identifies in a subscriber profile at least one condition under which a user may virtually view a live event from a given vantage point at a live event location, the subscriber profile comprising:

a network connection profile identifying one or more characteristics of a communications network available providing an Audio-Video (A/V) file stream to a subscriber device;
wherein the subscriber device is configurable to virtually present the live event, from the given vantage point;
and
wherein the A/V file stream includes a video portion comprising two or more video images representing the live event from the given vantage point.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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