Providing user content with streamed media chunks
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorsKrishna Prasad Panje, Murali Sahasranaman, Sundar Murthy Tumuluru, S N Karthick, Somesh Saraf
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Abstract
In a streaming server, companion content may be received and incorporated along with media that is streamed to clients. The companion content may originate from one of the clients, in some cases. In other cases, the companion content may originate from a source other than a client. The companion content may be any media relates to the media being streamed to the clients or directives that control the processing of the media being streamed to the clients.
Claims18
A method in a server for providing video media data comprising operating the server to perform steps of:
- receiving video media to be streamed to one or more client devices that provide the video data to a video player;
- generating a plurality of media chunks from the video media received;
- generating a plurality of manifest files which reference the plurality of media chunks;
- providing at least some of the manifest files to the one or more client devices, whereby said one or more clients can stream some of the media chunks using the manifest files;
- receiving companion content from a first client in the client devices, wherein the companion content is associated with a media chunk streamed by the first client;
- modifying one or more of the manifest files to reference the companion content, said one or more manifest files being identified based on the associated media chunk streamed by the first client;
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- providing a manifest file that contains a reference to the companion content to at least a second client in the client devices, wherein the second client generates output based on the companion content referenced in the manifest file.
A server system for providing video media data to one or more client devices comprising:
- a communication interface for connection to one or more communication networks;
- a data store having stored thereon computer executable program code;
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- a processing device, wherein the computer executable program code is configured to cause the processing device to:
- receive via the communication interface the video media data to be streamed;
- generate a plurality of media chunks from the media received, wherein at least some of the plurality of media chunks are stored on the data store;
- generate a plurality of manifest files which reference the plurality of media chunks;
- provide via the communication interface at least some of the manifest files to the one or more client devices, whereby said one or more client devices can stream some of the media chunks using the manifest files;
- receive via the communication interface companion content from a first client in the client devices, wherein the companion content is related to when a media chunk was streamed by the first client;
- modify one or more of the manifest files to reference the companion content, said one or more manifest files being identified based on the associated media chunk streamed by the first client;
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- provide via the communication interface a manifest file that contains a reference to the companion content to at least a second client in the client devices, wherein the second client generates output based on the companion content referenced in the manifest file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.