Method and system for creating and managing multiple subscribers of a content delivery network

• US 20060120385A1
• Filed: 12/02/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dan Westman, Darrell Todd Atchison
• Original Assignee: Dan Westman, Darrell Todd Atchison
• Inventors: Atchison, Darrell Todd, Westman, Dan
• Application Number:
  US11/291,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20060120385A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/400
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system for the real-time transmission, storage, retrieval and credentialing of video (and/or audio) data from a plurality of possible sources (subscribers) is accessible via a network, such as the Internet, to a plurality of authorized viewer clients and the subscriber for the purposes of management, addition or deletion of stored content, changing or creating of the live content location universal resource locator (URL) or the of credentials for viewers.

Claims

1. A system for creating and managing a streaming audio/visual content delivery network, comprising:

a gateway server that controls access to streaming audio/visual content and through which viewers obtain authorization to receive the streaming audio/visual content;

a media server operatively connected to the gateway server and in which the streaming audio/visual content is stored for streaming distribution to authorized viewers;

at least one subscriber from which the streaming audo/visual content originates in order to be stored in the media server, the at least one subscriber being operatively connected to the gateway server and the media server; and

at least one authorized viewer operatively connected to the gateway server so as to receive authorization from the at least one subscriber through the gateway server, and operatively connected to the media server so as to receive the streaming audio/visual content therefrom after authorization from the gateway server.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one subscriber includes an audo/visual content generating device and a network connection through which the audio/visual content generating device transmits the streaming audio/visual content to the media server.

3. A system according to claim 2, wherein the at least one subscriber includes the audo/visual content generating device and the network connection being wirelessly connected to the media server.

4. A system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an administrator user operatively connected to the gateway server and formed to at least one of create and manage a subscriber account, assign rights or parameters to the subscriber account, manage network resources, and parse information regarding subscriber usage.

5. A method for creating and managing a streaming audio/visual content delivery network, comprising the steps of:

generating in a gateway server at least one subscriber account for a subscriber from which streaming audio/visual content originates;

defining within the at least one subscriber account at least one viewer client having authorization to receive the streaming audio/visual content;

providing a streaming audio/visual content generating system for the subscriber in order to create the streaming audio/visual content;

transmitting the streaming audio/visual content from the streaming audio/visual content generating system from the subscriber and storing the streaming audio/visual content in a media server;

obtaining access authorization for the at least one viewer client from the gateway server; and

accessing the streaming audio/visual content from the media server to the at leat one viewer client after the gateway server authorizes access to the media server.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein the step of providing a streaming audio/visual content generating system includes providing the subscriber with an audo/visual content generating device and a network connection through which the audio/visual content generating device transmits the streaming audio/visual content to the media server.

8. A method according to claim 5, wherein the step of generating in a gateway server at least one subscriber account for a subscriber from which streaming audio/visual content originates includes at least one of creating and managing the at least one subscriber account, assigning rights or parameters to the at least one subscriber account, managing network resources, and parsing information regarding subscriber usage.

7. A method according to claim 7, wherein the step of providing a streaming audio/visual content generating system further includes wirelessly transmitting the streaming audio/visual content to the media server.