Method and system for the delivery of high definition audio-visual content

• US 10,291,676 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2014
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Setos Family Trust
• Original Assignee: Setos Family Trust
• Inventors: Setos, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Eskandarnia, Arvin
• Application Number:
  US14/270,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20140330938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,834 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• 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: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2662 Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/274 Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/835 Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10

Abstract

A system for delivery of owned High Definition audio-visual content to a location selected by a user is provided. The system includes a central facility for the storage of the content, and two or more local networks operatively connected to the central facility for receipt of the content from the central facility. One local network has a dedicated high bandwidth data line to the location of the user, and the dedicated data line transmits of the content as high definition content, and the transmission is such that it allows for immediate play.

Claims

1. A system for delivery of content owned by a user, comprising:

a central facility for management of the content owned by the user,

wherein the central facility is operatively connected to a licensor of content, and wherein the content is one or more titles of works;

a plurality of local networks operatively connected to the central facility, each of the plurality of local networks initially havingfrom none to all of the content owned by the user;

a data line dedicated to the user; and

a user location, wherein the user location is connected to at least one of the plurality of local networks via the data line,

wherein the data line transmits the content owned by the user from the local network to the user location,

wherein when the user purchases a title from one of the plurality of local networks, the

at least one of the plurality of local networks communicates with the central facility and sends purchase information to the central facility,

wherein the central facility sends the one or more titles of works to each of the plurality of local networks to ensure that each of the plurality of local networks has all of the one or more titles of works purchased by the user, and so that all of the content owned by the user is stored in the local network that the user is connected to and all of the stored content is available as high definition audio-visual content for immediate play by the user at the user location, and

wherein the content is transmitted as high definition audio-visual content via the data line, and the high definition audio-visual content is transmitted according to a definition set forth in at least one of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Standard 296M;

2012, the International Telecommunications Union Rec. ITU-R BT.709-5 Part 2, and the International Telecommunications Union Rec. ITU-R BT.2020.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data line is a channel with fixed bandwidth.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the channel with fixed bandwidth is a frequency domain multiplexed channel.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the high definition audio-visual content is delivered with image compression.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the high definition format and image compression uses data rates that result in a PSNR of at least 42 decibels.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the central facility manages a database for the user, one or more other users and the plurality of local networks.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the central facility transfers content amongst the plurality of local networks.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein when the user relocates to another local network on the plurality of local networks, a list of the content owned by the user is transferred to another local network.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein none of the user owned content is stored at the user location.

9. A system for delivery of owned content, comprising:

a location selected by a user from a local network;

a central facility for management of the content, wherein the central facility is operatively connected to a licensor of content, and wherein the content is one or more titles of works;

a plurality of local networks operatively connected to the central facility for receipt of the content from the central facility so that each of the plurality of local networks have all of the owned content; and

a high bandwidth data line, dedicated to the user, for transmission of the content between the local network and the location selected by the user, wherein the dedicated data line transmits the content as high definition content, wherein the high definition content is available for immediate play by the user at the location selected by the user,

wherein when the user purchases a title from one of the plurality of local networks, the at least one of the plurality of local networks communicates with the central facility and sends

purchase information to the central facility,

wherein the central facility sends the one or more titles of works to each of the plurality of local networks to ensure that each of the plurality of local networks has all of the one or more titles of works purchased by the user, and

wherein the high definition audio-visual content is transmitted according to a definition set forth in at least one of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Standard 296M;

2012, the International Telecommunications Union Rec. ITU-R BT.709-5 Part 2, and the International Telecommunications Union Rec. ITU-R BT.2020.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the high bandwidth data line is a channel with fixed bandwidth.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the channel with fixed bandwidth is a frequency domain multiplexed channel.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the central facility will deliver to one or more of the plurality of local networks content owned by the user that is missing in each of the plurality of local networks.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the missing content is transmitted from the central facility to each of the local networks via duplex data communication lines.