Sharing a streaming video

• US 10,277,654 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2018
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Videoshare, LLC
• Original Assignee: Videoshare, LLC
• Inventors: Liwerant, Gad, Dodge, Christopher, Boissiere, Guillaume
• Primary Examiner(s): Saltarelli, Dominic D
• Application Number:
  US15/971,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20180241794A1
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 725 32- 36
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0039 where the data service is provided by a stream of packets which are rendered in real time by the receiving terminal network streaming of media packets H04L65/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6379 directed to encoder , e.g. for requesting a lower encoding rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

A video segment can be shared over a computer network by first receiving the video segment at a receiving computer on the network. The receiving computer assures that the video segment is in a streaming video format, and creates at least one identification tag for the video segment. The receiving computer also stores the video segment, and communicates the identification tag to another computer on the network. Upon subsequent receipt of that identification tag, the receiving computer streams the video segment to a destination computer on the network.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

performing by a first computer;

(a) receiving a first video file having any one video file format among a plurality of video file formats from a first user on a second computer on a network;

(b) automatically converting said first video file having the any one video file format into a first streaming video file having a first streaming video format and automatically converting the first video file having the any one video file format into a second streaming video file having a second streaming video format, independent from receiving a command to perform said converting from said first user;

(c) automatically generating an identification tag that (i) comprises an image representing a subject matter of said first streaming video file and (ii) identifies said first streaming video file;

(d) embedding said identification tag in a first web page;

(e) transmitting, via a second web page, said first streaming video file to a second user on a third computer on a network; and

(f) converting the first video file into a third streaming video format,

wherein the transmitting to the third computer on the network includes transmitting the first streaming video file, the second streaming video file, and the third streaming video file in association with the identification tag to the third computer on the network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said first computer comprises a plurality of computers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said first computer comprises a web server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said second computer comprises a cellular telephone or PDA.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein two or more of steps (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are performed by different computers.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each of steps (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are performed by a single computer.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said first video file is a streaming video file in streaming video format.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said first web page is the same web page as said second web page.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving is via a third web page.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein two or more of said first web page, second web page, and third web page are the same web page.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing both the first video file and the first streaming video file in streaming video format on the first computer.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

converting the first streaming video file into a third streaming video file having a third streaming video format.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first streaming video file and the second streaming video file have different video quality.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the converting the first video file into the first streaming video file includes data compression of the first video file and the converting the first video file into the second streaming video file includes data compression of the first video file.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first streaming video file is compressed to a bit rate specified by an individual or compressed to a bandwidth that is required to view the first streaming video without disruption.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

removing temporary files, that were created during the performing of steps (a), (b), (c), and (d), from a hard drive of the first computer.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically discriminating, by the first computer, transmission speed capabilities of hardware of the third computer of the second user desiring to view the first video file.