Delivery platform for cinema content
AssigneeBarco N.V.
InventorsTom BERT, Diego DUYVEJONCK, Amitabh MODAK
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Abstract
A system for distributing digital cinema content (DCC) to cinemas integrates with content creators, distributors and cinemas. A backbone that includes a scheduling system operates to automatically transfer DCC to individual cinema IT systems. The scheduler ensures availability of DCC at a cinema IT system in advance of or at a show time. The system may automatically generate key delivery messages. The cinema IT systems may include cinema servers that include media players dedicated to specific screens. The cinema servers may be operated as federated server groups. DCC may be stored on any of the cinema servers and played back on any screens in a cinema.
Claims15
A system for distributing and managing digital cinema content (DCC) distributed by one or more post-production servers to one or more distributor servers, the system comprising:
- a content delivery backbone comprising:
- one or more backbone data stores configured to:
- receive DCC from one or more distributor servers;
- and
- temporarily store the received DCC or parts of the DCC;
- and
- one or more backbone servers configured to:
- deliver the DCC from the one or more backbone data stores to one or more cinema IT systems that have requested the DCC according to a delivery schedule that ensures the DCC is received at the one or more cinema IT systems before a scheduled showing of the DCC.
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