System and method for providing a web event channel player

• US 20090164875A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BrightTALK Limited (TechTarget, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BrightTALK Limited (TechTarget, Inc.)
• Inventors: Rance, Peter, Winter, Kenneth, Logan, Dorian
• Granted Patent: US 9,015,570 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2368 Multiplexing of audio and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47208 for requesting near-video-on-demand content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for providing access to an channel via an embedded web event channel player. In exemplary embodiments, an embeddable code associated with the channel is provided to a channel owner. Once embedded, the code will provide an instance of the channel player on a user'"'"'s device that can access the channel. A list of events is aggregated and provided for the channel associated with the channel player. Upon a request by a user, an event from the list of events may be streamed to the channel player.

Claims

1. A method for providing a channel of events in a channel player, comprising:

providing an embeddable code associated with the channel, the embeddable code being positioned in any location to embed access to the channel from that location and provide an instance of the channel player;

aggregating a list of events in the channel;

presenting the list of events in the channel to the channel player; and

providing a requested event to a user via the channel player.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the list of events comprises at least one archived event.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the list of events comprises at least one upcoming event.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the list of events comprises a live event.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein aggregating the list of events comprises providing a channel interface listing the events in the channel.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising distinguishing a current or next event entry on the channel interface.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein providing the requested event comprises providing live audio.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising synchronizing the live audio with images in real time.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the live audio is obtained from a video.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein providing the requested event comprises accessing and providing the channel player with an archived event.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising maintaining an archive of all past, recorded events.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein providing the requested event comprises obtaining registration information from a subscriber for an upcoming event.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein providing the requested event comprises sending a reminder to a subscriber about an upcoming event.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing the requested event comprises providing a countdown clock for a next, upcoming event.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a search mechanism for finding one or more events from the list of events.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein providing the requested event comprises replacing an interface comprising the list of events with an interface comprising a data stream of the requested event.

17. A system for providing a channel of events in a channel player, comprising:

a code module configured to generate an embeddable code associated with the channel, the embeddable code being positioned in any location to embed access to the channel at the location;

an event module configured to establish one or more upcoming events on the channel and aggregate a list of events in the channel;

an interface module configured to present the list of events in the channel to the channel player; and

an event distribution module configured to provide a requested event to the channel player of a user.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the event distribution module comprises a distribution module configured to stream a live event to the channel player.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the event distribution module comprises an archive module configured to obtain and stream an archived event to the channel player.

20. The system of claim 17 further comprising a media encoder configured to synchronize live audio and pre-recorded images in substantially real-time.

21. A machine-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program providing instructions for a method for providing a channel of events in a channel player, the method comprising:

providing an embeddable code associated with the channel, the embeddable code being positioned in any location to embed access to the channel from that location and provide an instance of the channel player;

aggregating a list of events in the channel;

presenting the list of events in the channel to the channel player; and

providing a requested event to a user via the channel player.