Collaborative video via distributed storage and blogging
First Claim
1. A decentralized, peer-to-peer, distributed storage system comprising:
- a first collection of one or more services operative to receive a request for storage of a digital video or media clip, said digital video clip including a hierarchy of ownership metadata identifying a primary owner, said first owner associated with at least a first portion of the digital video clip; and
a second collection of one or more services operative to cause the digital video clip to be stored in a distributed manner over a plurality of network nodes that are communicatively coupled to the network.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for sharing video or media content on a distributed network are disclosed. End users may be induced through a variety of ways to allocate some amount of unused disk space and otherwise idle bandwidth for storing media produced in a blogging or web-publishing context. For example, when a user creates a blog, the user may link certain video or media files to it. Such video may be kept in a distributed store across a variety of peer machines. If a visitor visits the blog, the visitor may see contextual ads based upon the subject matter associated with the blog, and the blog owner may receive a share of the advertising revenue generated. A visitor may download the video and combine it with new content. Thus, composite media files may be created from sections taken from any number of previously created video clips, each of which may be associated with a different owner. The composite media files may include pointers to any or all of the original owners, as well as the respective length of each included section. The composite video may then be added to a different blog. Anyone visiting the new blog may also see contextual ads, with pro-rated portions of the generated ad revenue flowing proportionally to each of the original media owners.
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19 Claims
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1. A decentralized, peer-to-peer, distributed storage system comprising:
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a first collection of one or more services operative to receive a request for storage of a digital video or media clip, said digital video clip including a hierarchy of ownership metadata identifying a primary owner, said first owner associated with at least a first portion of the digital video clip; and
a second collection of one or more services operative to cause the digital video clip to be stored in a distributed manner over a plurality of network nodes that are communicatively coupled to the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for distributing ad-generated revenue, the method comprising:
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storing a video or media clip in a distributed manner over a plurality of network nodes that are communicatively coupled to a network, said digital video clip including metadata identifying a first owner, said first owner associated with at least a first portion of the digital video clip;
dynamically embedding an ad-related interstitial into the video clip before or during delivery of the video clip to a requesting network node from which the video was requested; and
allocating a first amount of revenue to the first owner if an ad link generated by the ad-related interstitial is selected at the requesting node. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for generating a video or media clip to ascribe ownership of at least a portion of the video clip, the method comprising:
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receiving a video or media clip created by a first author, said video clip including first content created by the first author and second content created by a second author; and
embedding into the video clip metadata identifying each of the first and second authors. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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Specification