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US 8,620,878 B2Granted
System and method of distributing multimedia content
AssigneeUstream, Inc.
InventorsGyula Feher, Fred Bradley Hunstable, John Ham, Timothy G. Villanueva, Christopher Shen Yeh
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Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, multimedia content may be streamed, together with associated timing information, to various users, who may provide feedback data in response to the multimedia content; the feedback data may be related to the multimedia content using the associated timing information, and then stored to some medium.
Claims18
A method of distributing broadcasting multimedia content, the method comprising:
- receiving multimedia data to be distributed;
- streaming, by a computing device at a first time, a first presentation of the multimedia data to first users, wherein the multimedia data is presented to each of the first users for a duration of time in a time-dependent manner;
- responsive to streaming the first presentation, receiving a plurality of items of experience data from the first users, each item of experience data associated with a point of time in the multimedia data, and the each item of experience data representing a reaction by one of the first users at the associated point of time during the first presentation of the multimedia data;
- aggregating, by a telemetry engine, the items of experience data corresponding to the multimedia data to generate aggregated experience data;
- analyzing the aggregated experience data;
- assigning at least a portion of the multimedia data to one or more categories based on the analysis of the aggregated experience data;
- sending the aggregated experience data to the first users for presentation to the users in conjunction with the first presentation of the multimedia data;
- storing the aggregated experience data in association with the multimedia data;
- at a second time after the first time, streaming a second presentation of the multimedia data to second users;
- and
- sending the aggregated experience data to the second users for presentation to the second users in conjunction with the second presentation of the multimedia data.
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A system for distributing broadcasting multimedia content, the system comprising:
- a streaming engine comprising a processor, the streaming engine configured to:
- at a first time, stream a first presentation of multimedia data to first users, wherein the multimedia data is presented to the first users for a duration of time in a time-dependent manner;
- and
- at a second time after the first time, stream a second presentation of the multimedia data to second users;
- and
- a telemetry engine configured to:
- receive a plurality of items of experience data from the first users responsive to streaming the first presentation of the multimedia data to the first users, each item of experience data associated with a point of time of the multimedia data, and the each item of experience data representing a reaction by one of the first users at the associated point of time during the first presentation of the multimedia data;
- aggregate the items of experience data corresponding to the multimedia data to generate aggregated experience data;
- analyze the aggregated experience data;
- assign at least a portion of the multimedia data to one or more categories based on the analysis of the aggregated experience data;
- send the aggregated experience data to the first users to be presented to the first users in conjunction with the first presentation of the multimedia data;
- store the aggregated experience data in association with the multimedia data;
- and
- send the aggregated experience data to the second users to be presented to the second users in conjunction with the second presentation of the multimedia data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.