SHARING A STREAMING VIDEO

• US 20080155631A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Videoshare, LLC
• Original Assignee: Gad Liwerant
• Inventors: DODGE, CHRISTOPHER, BOISSIERE, GUILLAUME, LIWERANT, GAD
• Granted Patent: US 7,987,492 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/114
• 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: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0039 where the data service is provided by a stream of packets which are rendered in real time by the receiving terminal network streaming of media packets H04L65/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6379 directed to encoder , e.g. for requesting a lower encoding rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

A video segment can be shared over a computer network by first receiving the video segment at a receiving computer on the network. The receiving computer assures that the video segment is in a streaming video format, and creates at least one identification tag for the video segment. The receiving computer also stores the video segment, and communicates the identification tag to another computer on the network. Upon subsequent receipt of that identification tag, the receiving computer streams the video segment to a destination computer on the network.

Claims

1. A method of sharing a video segment over a computer network, the network comprising a receiving computer and a plurality of other computers including a destination computer, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving at the receiving computer the video segment sent over the computer network from one of the plurality of other computers;

(b) performing automatically at the receiving computer, in response to a command received over the network, the steps of;

(b1) assuring that the video segment is in a streaming video format;

(b2) creating at least an identification tag for the video segment to identify the video segment;

(b3) storing the video segment under the control of the receiving computer in the streaming video format; and

(b4) returning the identification tag to the one of the plurality of other computers;

(c) receiving the identification tag at the receiving computer; and

(d) in response to the receipt of the identification tag at the receiving computer, streaming the video segment in the streaming video format over the network to the destination computer.