CUSTOMIZABLE METADATA AND CONTEXTUAL SYNDICATION OF DIGITAL PROGRAM MATERIAL

• US 20090259563A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Klikvu Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Klikvu Incorporated
• Inventors: Feuer, Lowell, Ruhnke, William
• Application Number:
  US12/242,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259563A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

A system and method for providing video and/or audio on-on demand service to owners of video and/or audio program rights for offering digital versions of those programs to web site visitors. The method or system is an Application Service Provider (ASP) model, whereby the services are provided to the video and/or audio owners over the World Wide Web and where no specifics software need reside with the video and/or audio owners. Video and/or audio programs from the owners, once converted to an appropriate digital form, are streamed over the Internet or other IP networks for viewing in real-time direct from a remote device having video and/or audio servers that store the digital programs by viewers who have purchased the right to view them. Customizable metadata is utilized to thematically and contextually identify the digital file. This metadata is searchable by a person seeking digital files for download. E-commerce transaction processing is provided on behalf of the video and/or audio owner, and revenue is appropriately conveyed to the owner and/or the web site.

Claims

1. A system for providing digital programs over the world wide web, the system comprising:

a device having a storing means for storing one or more digital programs provided by an owner of the rights to the digital programs;

ordering means for ordering one or more digital programs by a user from a web site through the device; and

customizable metadata associated with the digital programs

2. The system for providing digital programs over the world wide web according to claim 1, further comprising:

purchasing means for purchasing the one or more digital programs.

3. A system for providing digital on-demand content to be offered on a web site, the system comprising:

a. a directory of one or more available digital files provided on a website and stored on one or more remote servers, the directory including customizable metadata associated with a plurality of the available digital files;

b. ordering means to order one or more particular digital files;

c. transaction processing means to accept orders placed by a customer for the one or more particular digital files; and

d. delivering means for delivering the one or more particular digital files from the one or more remote servers to the customer.

4. The system for providing digital on-demand content to be offered on a web site according to claim 3, further comprising:

a. purchasing means for the customer to purchase the one or more digital files.

5. The system for providing digital on-demand content to be offered on a web site according to claim 3, further comprising:

a. a system for providing digital programs over the world wide web.

6. A method for providing digital on-demand content to be offered on a web site, the method comprising:

a. providing a listing to a customer of available video and/or audio files stored on one or more remote servers and selected from a directory based on a variety of search or filter criteria on a web site wherein some portion of the available files contain customizable metadata that may be searched by the customer;

b. generating an order form on the web site for the customer;

c. accepting orders placed by the customer on the web site for a particular video and/or audio file; and

d. granting the customer viewing or retrieval privileges to the particular video and/or audio file, where the particular video and/or audio file is viewed or retrieved from the one or more remote servers for the customer.