Systems and methods for supporting the delivery of streamed content
First Claim
1. A computer network system for supporting a user in managing streaming media assets, comprising a server having an upload process for receiving a media asset having content for being streamed across a data network, a check-in process for allowing a user to assign meta-data to the media asset, a storage process for replicating and for storing the media asset across storage devices distributed across the computer network system, and an editing process for allowing a user to modify the meta-data and for propagating modifications to the meta-data to the replicated and stored media assets.
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Abstract
Server systems have distributed file systems that provides services for loading, staging, distributing and delivering streamed media content. The file system may be remotely accessible through a web browser, or other client application. The file system described herein can allow a customer of the hosting server to access and control the web site files from a remote location, and manipulate and manage the files stored on the host site, to configure the site as desired. To this end, the distributed file system provides a process for allowing a user to upload streaming media content from a client site to the host, or to another location accessible by the file system. A staging process allows the user to set or adjust meta-data characteristics of the uploaded media asset, and a distribution process is capable of replicating the media asset and distributing the replicated versions of that asset across the data network.
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1. A computer network system for supporting a user in managing streaming media assets, comprising
a server having an upload process for receiving a media asset having content for being streamed across a data network, a check-in process for allowing a user to assign meta-data to the media asset, a storage process for replicating and for storing the media asset across storage devices distributed across the computer network system, and an editing process for allowing a user to modify the meta-data and for propagating modifications to the meta-data to the replicated and stored media assets.
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18. A method for supporting a user in delivering a streaming media asset over a data network, comprising
providing a web server for allowing a client to access services for managing the streaming media asset, the web server having access to an upload process for receiving a media asset having content for being streamed across a data network, a check-in process for allowing a user to assign meta-data to the media asset, a storage process for replicating and for storing the media asset across storage devices distributed across the computer network system, and an editing process for allowing a user to modify the meta-data and for propagating modifications to the meta-data to the replicated and stored media assets, and allowing a client to access said web server and for employing managing the streaming media asset.
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