Personal media broadcasting system
First Claim
1. A personal media broadcasting system comprising:
- a personal media broadcaster having embedded hardware for receiving an analog signal from an audio/video source device, constructing a media stream from the signal, and transmitting the media stream over a computer network; and
a media player client for communicating with the personal media broadcaster over the computer network to receive the media stream and playing the media stream for a user.
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Abstract
A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A personal broadcaster receives an input from one or more types of media sources, digitizes and compresses the content, and streams the compressed media over a computer network to a media player running on any of a wide range of client devices for viewing the media. The system may allow the user to issue control commands (e.g., “channel up”) from the media player to the broadcaster, causing the source device to execute the commands. The broadcaster and the media player may employ several techniques for buffering, transmitting, and viewing the content to improve the user'"'"'s experience.
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36 Claims
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1. A personal media broadcasting system comprising:
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a personal media broadcaster having embedded hardware for receiving an analog signal from an audio/video source device, constructing a media stream from the signal, and transmitting the media stream over a computer network; and
a media player client for communicating with the personal media broadcaster over the computer network to receive the media stream and playing the media stream for a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A personal media broadcaster comprising:
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an embedded input interface module for communication with one or more audio/video source devices;
an embedded decoder module coupled to the input interface module for receiving an audio/video signal from the one or more audio/video source devices via the input interface module and for decoding the audio/visual signal;
an embedded processing module coupled to the decoder module and configured to construct a media stream suitable for transmission over a computer network from the audio/visual signal; and
an embedded network interface module for transmitting the media stream to a client over the computer network. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A media player client application for a personal media broadcasting system, the media player client application comprising a computer-readable medium containing computer program code for performing a method comprising:
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receiving a media stream from a personal media broadcaster over a computer network, the media stream containing an encoded signal from an audio/video source device;
playing the received media stream on a multi-purpose computing device;
receiving a user command to control content in the media stream; and
responsive to receiving the user command, communicating the user command to the personal media broadcaster to affect the content of the media stream. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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