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GB2364151A - A program scheduler for an interactive information distribution system - Google Patents

A program scheduler for an interactive information distribution system

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GB2364151A
GB2364151A GB0123373A GB0123373A GB2364151A GB 2364151 A GB2364151 A GB 2364151A GB 0123373 A GB0123373 A GB 0123373A GB 0123373 A GB0123373 A GB 0123373A GB 2364151 A GB2364151 A GB 2364151A
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video assets
coupled
program scheduler
distribution system
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GB2364151B (en
GB0123373D0 (en
Inventor
Christopher W B Goode
Tobie J Rocca
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Diva Systems Corp
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Diva Systems Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/231—Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/21—Server components or server architectures
    • H04N21/222—Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end
    • H04N21/2221—Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end being a cable television head-end
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/258—Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
    • H04N21/25866—Management of end-user data
    • H04N21/25883—Management of end-user data being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/472—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content
    • H04N21/47202—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H04N7/17309—Transmission or handling of upstream communications
    • H04N7/17318—Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Computer Graphics (AREA)
  • Human Computer Interaction (AREA)
  • Two-Way Televisions, Distribution Of Moving Picture Or The Like (AREA)

Abstract

An apparatus and method for distributing video assets in an interactive information distribution system (100) comprising a program scheduler (150) for identifying video assets for distribution, and a plurality of servers (108) coupled to the program scheduler (150) for receiving and storing the identified video assets. A plurality of programmers retrieve titles of the video assets stored in a title database (310) via a plurality of programmer interface front-end modules (302). Upon completion of defining the title-plans, the title-plans are stored in a title-plan database (314) via a back-end module (304). The back-end module (304) is coupled to the plurality of programmer interface front-end modules (302) and the title-plan database. Additionally, a content distribution planner (306) is coupled to the back-end module (304), via the title-plan database (314), and coupled to the plurality of servers (108) for selectively and timely distributing the video assets to the plurality of servers.
GB0123373A 1999-04-01 2000-03-30 A program scheduler for an interactive information distribution system Expired - Fee Related GB2364151B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

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US12733399P 1999-04-01 1999-04-01
US53817600A 2000-03-30 2000-03-30
PCT/US2000/008349 WO2000060482A1 (en) 1999-04-01 2000-03-30 A program scheduler for an interactive information distribution system

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GB0123373D0 GB0123373D0 (en) 2001-11-21
GB2364151A true GB2364151A (en) 2002-01-16
GB2364151B GB2364151B (en) 2003-10-01

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CA (1) CA2368820A1 (en)
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WO (1) WO2000060482A1 (en)

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CA2368820A1 (en) 2000-10-12
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WO2000060482A9 (en) 2002-04-04
GB0123373D0 (en) 2001-11-21
AU3929300A (en) 2000-10-23

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