AU2001273620A1 - System and method for communicating a variety of multi-media works over a computer network based on user selection - Google Patents

System and method for communicating a variety of multi-media works over a computer network based on user selection

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AU2001273620A1
AU2001273620A1 AU2001273620A AU7362001A AU2001273620A1 AU 2001273620 A1 AU2001273620 A1 AU 2001273620A1 AU 2001273620 A AU2001273620 A AU 2001273620A AU 7362001 A AU7362001 A AU 7362001A AU 2001273620 A1 AU2001273620 A1 AU 2001273620A1
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communicating
variety
computer network
user selection
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Eric Haddan
Donald C. Watters Jr.
Robert B. Way
Roland R. Wood
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ESYNCH Corp
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ESYNCH CORP
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
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    • 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
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    • 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
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
    • H04N21/4622—Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/60—Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client, e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client 
    • H04N21/61—Network physical structure; Signal processing
    • H04N21/6106—Network physical structure; Signal processing specially adapted to the downstream path of the transmission network
    • H04N21/6125—Network physical structure; Signal processing specially adapted to the downstream path of the transmission network involving transmission via Internet
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/85—Assembly of content; Generation of multimedia applications
    • H04N21/858—Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
    • H04N21/8586—Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot by using a URL

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
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  • Multimedia (AREA)
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  • User Interface Of Digital Computer (AREA)
AU2001273620A 2000-06-22 2001-06-21 System and method for communicating a variety of multi-media works over a computer network based on user selection Abandoned AU2001273620A1 (en)

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US59975800A 2000-06-22 2000-06-22
US09599758 2000-06-22
PCT/US2001/041096 WO2001098911A1 (en) 2000-06-22 2001-06-21 System and method for communicating a variety of multi-media works over a computer network based on user selection

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