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Information delivery system for generating a data stream with a server system based on a content file received from a client device

AssigneeTessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.

InventorsHiroaki Okada, Keigo Futagawa

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Abstract

An information delivery system, an information delivery method, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method is used advantageously to deliver content stream data easily, reliably and inexpensively to the general users. A personal computer prepares a content file and an order form file using software provided by a center system, and transmits the prepared files to the center system over the Internet. Given the order form file from a customer device, the center system encodes a content file accordingly to generate content stream data and causes a moving picture delivery server to deliver the generated stream data to user terminals. This invention can be applied, among others, to systems for delivering content data over the Internet.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented server comprising:

a communication unit:
transmitting instructions and an order form to a client device;
wherein the order form includes a field that includes a plurality of selectable sub-fields corresponding to a plurality of content delivery networks;
and
wherein executing the instructions on the client device causes displaying, on the client device, at least the plurality of selectable sub-fields of the order form, and allowing a user of the client device to select one or more content delivery networks, from the plurality of content delivery networks, from which content data of the user is to be delivered to a plurality of customers;
and
a controller:
controlling the communication unit to receive the content data of the user and a completed order form, which designates one or more selected content delivery networks, from the plurality of content delivery networks, from which the content data is to be delivered to the plurality of customers;
causing the communication unit to deliver the content data of the user to one or more content data stream delivery servers that belong to the one or more selected content delivery networks.

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A method comprising:

transmitting instructions and an order form to a client device;
wherein the order form includes a field that includes a plurality of selectable sub-fields corresponding to a plurality of content delivery networks;
wherein executing the instructions on the client device causes displaying, on the client device, at least the plurality of selectable sub-fields of the order form, and allowing a user of the client device to select one or more content delivery networks, from the plurality of content delivery networks, from which content data of the user is to be delivered to a plurality of customers;
receiving the content data of the user and a completed order form, which designates one or more selected content delivery networks, from the plurality of content delivery networks, from which the content data of the user is to be delivered to the plurality of customers;
and
causing delivering the content data of the user to one or more content data stream delivery servers that belong to the one or more selected content delivery networks.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing code instructions which, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform:

transmitting instructions and an order form to a client device;
wherein the order form includes a field that includes a plurality of selectable sub-fields corresponding to a plurality of content delivery networks;
wherein executing the instructions on the client device causes displaying, on the client device, at least the plurality of selectable sub-fields of the order form, and allowing a user of the client device to select one or more content delivery networks, from the plurality of content delivery networks, from which content data of the user is to be delivered to a plurality of customers;
receiving the content data of the user and a completed order form, which designates one or more selected content delivery networks, from the plurality of content delivery networks, from which the content data of the user is to be delivered to the plurality of customers;
and
causing delivering the content data of the user to one or more content data stream delivery servers that belong to the one or more selected content delivery networks.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/269,684Filed 19 Sep 2016 · continuation
Priority: JP 2001-34562312 Nov 2001
Published: US 2017/0013089 A112 Jan 2017
Granted: 31 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04N 7/173
Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems: with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
H04N 21/234309
Involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements: by…
H04N 21/2547
Billing , e.g. for subscription services: third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser

Family

PCT/JP02/11754Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Nov 2002
Application13/371,116Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Feb 2012
US 8,150,906 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Apr 2012
Application14/478,905Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Sep 2014
US 8,856,217 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Oct 2014
US 2017/0013089 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Jan 2017
US 9,451,052 B2Parent of this continuation
Application10/471,608Parent of this continuation
US 2004/0163123 A1Published application
US 2012/0143940 A1Published application
US 2014/0379788 A1Published application
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