Media Playback System with Multiple Video Formats

• US 20100057782A1
• Filed: 08/27/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adeia Media Holdings LLC (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Brightcove Incorporated
• Inventors: Godlewski, Michael Edmund, McGowan, Albert John
• Granted Patent: US 8,843,974 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2387 Stream processing in response to a playback request from an end-user, e.g. for trick-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide a process for a user viewing a media item. The process comprises the user viewing the media item on a first device in a first format, and the user pausing the media item at a stop time. The stop time is saved in the first format and a second format. The process further comprises the user choosing to view the media item on a second device requiring the second format. The media item is resumed in the second format from the saved stop time.

Claims

1. A process including a user viewing a media item through at least one of a first device and a second device, the process comprising:

providing a database that stores the media item in a first format and a second format, where the first format can be played on the first device and the second format can be played on the second device;

providing a processing unit;

the user choosing to view the media item on the first device;

the processing unit determining the first format is necessary to view the media item on the first device, retrieving the first format from the database, and playing the first format on the first device;

the user pausing the media item on the first device in the first format at a stop time;

the processing unit saving the stop time of the media item in the first format and the second format in the database;

the user choosing to view the media item on the second device; and

the processing unit determining the second format is necessary to view the media item on the second device, retrieving the second format from the database, and playing the second format on the second device from the saved stop time.

2. A system for a user to view a media file through at least one of a first device and a second device, the system comprising:

a database that stores the media file in a first format and a second format, where the first format can be played on the first device and the second format can be played on the second device; and

a processing unit that determines which of the first format and the second format is necessary to view the media file on at least one of the first device and the second device,

a system memory for saving a stop time of the media file in the first format and the second format in the database such that the media file can be resumed at the stop time in one of the first format on the first device and the second format on the second device.