公开(公告)号：US20170134778A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15414493

申请日：2017-01-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gregory N. CHRISTIE ,  Alessandro SABATELLI ,  William M. BACHMAN ,  Imran CHAUDHRI ,  Jeffrey L. ROBBIN ,  Jim A. YOUNG ,  Joe HOWARD ,  Marcel VAN OS ,  Patrick L. COFFMAN ,  Stephen O. LEMAY ,  Jeffrey MA ,  Lynne KRESS

IPC: H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/258

CPC classification number: H04N21/2541 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/25875 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/4415 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/4668 ,  H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/4826 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content delivery service. A media content provider includes a data store for storing and serving media content to subscribers. The media content provider continually records and or otherwise stores video and audio content from around the world. Stored content will generally correspond to a large number of other media content providers, such as cable television operators, Internet based media content providers, television networks, and so on. Subscribers to the media provider interact with the media content provider via hardware and/or software mechanisms either provided by the media content provider or conforming to specifications of the media content provider. Based on these subscriber's subscriptions to the other content providers, the subscribers will have viewing, listening, or application execution privileges for content maintained in the data store. Content of a subscriber corresponding to multiple video content providers is maintained and served by a single provider.