- 专利标题: Method for addressing on-demand TV program content on TV services platform of a digital TV services provider
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申请号: US16947320申请日: 2020-07-28
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公开(公告)号: US11245942B2公开(公告)日: 2022-02-08
- 发明人: Milton Diaz Perez
- 申请人: Broadband iTV, Inc.
- 申请人地址: US TX Austin
- 专利权人: Broadband iTV, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Broadband iTV, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US TX Austin
- 代理机构: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP
- 主分类号: H04N21/482
- IPC分类号: H04N21/482 ; H04N21/81 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/234 ; H04N21/222 ; H04N21/462 ; H04N21/472 ; H04N21/8545 ; H04N21/61 ; H04N21/258 ; H04N21/414 ; H04N21/475 ; G06Q30/02 ; H04N7/173 ; H04N21/2547 ; H04N21/4722 ; H04N21/262 ; H04N21/2665 ; H04N21/643 ; H04N21/431 ; H04N21/434 ; H04N21/6379 ; H04N21/84 ; H04N21/854 ; H04N21/4786
摘要:
Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses.
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