DISTRIBUTION OF MODIFIED OR SELECTIVELY CHOSEN MEDIA ON A PROCURED CHANNEL

• US 20100263002A1
• Filed: 04/09/2009
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meuninck, Troy C., Kashapov, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US12/421,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20100263002A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/91
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• 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

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to receive and alter media from a procured channel in an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) network, create a library of metadata pointers to the altered media, and grant access to the library of metadata pointers through a server in the IPTV network, wherein the server presents a media on demand (MoD) option for access to the altered media to users on the IPTV network. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method at a set top box (STB), comprising:

accessing and altering media from a procured channel in an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network;

storing the altered media;

creating a library of metadata pointers to the altered media; and

sending the library of metadata pointers to a server, wherein the server presents a video on demand (VoD) option for access to the altered media to users on the IPTV network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media is static media available upon request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media is dynamic media presented live or in a schedule format and altered with portions of the dynamic media replaced with alternative live or scheduled content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media is stored at the STB and a VoD option is presented to at least one among a mobile phone user, an STB user, and a computer user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media is stored at the STB and a VoD option is presented to a mobile phone user, an STB user, and a computer user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media is stored at a backend server and a VoD option is presented to at least one among a mobile phone user, an STB user, and a computer user.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising using a digital video recorder at the STB as a buffer for temporarily storing the altered media.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered media is stored in at least one among the STB or a backend server and a VoD option with the library of metadata pointers presented to a target user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the VoD option is a part of a media on demand (MoD) option wherein the altered media is among audio, text, still images, and video.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the library of metadata pointers includes a pointer to altered data that is presented live on the procured channel.

11. A computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions to:

receive and store a metadata pointer to altered media, wherein the altered media is created by a user of an interactive television (iTV) network from a procured channel in the iTV network; and

presenting a media on demand option for access to the altered media using the metadata pointer to the altered media.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the metadata pointer is a part of a library of metadata pointers to altered media stored at a set top box (STB) of the user of the iTV network.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the altered media is one among static media and dynamic media that was presented live or in a schedule format and altered with portions of the dynamic media replaced with alternative live or scheduled content.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, comprising computer instructions to:

store the altered media at the STB; and

present a media on demand (MoD) option to a mobile phone user, an STB user, and a computer user.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein computer-readable storage medium operates at a server, wherein the altered media is stored at the server, and wherein the iTV network corresponds to at least one of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network, an interactive cable TV network, a satellite TV network, and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein computer-readable storage medium operates at a server, and wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises computer instructions to:

store the altered media at the server; and

present a media on demand (MoD) option to at least one among a mobile phone user, an STB user, and a computer user.

17. A media processor, comprising a controller to:

receive and alter media from a procured channel in an interactive television (iTV) network;

create a library of metadata pointers to the altered media; and

grant access to the library of metadata pointers by way of the iTV network.

18. The media processor of claim 17, wherein the altered media is presented as a media on demand (MoD) option to users on the iTV network, and wherein the library of metadata pointer includes at least one metadata pointer to altered media stored at the media processor.

19. The media processor of claim 17, wherein the altered media is one among dynamic media that was presented live and dynamic media presented in a scheduled format and altered with portions of the dynamic media replaced with alternative live or scheduled content.

20. The media processor of claim 17, wherein the media processor is a set-top box (STB), and wherein the controller is operable to:

store the altered media at the STB; and

present a media on demand (MoD) option to at least one of a mobile phone user and a computer user.

21. The media processor of claim 17, wherein the altered media is stored in at least one of a server operating in the iTV network and at the media processor.

22. The media processor of claim 17, wherein the controller is operable to use a digital video recorder as a buffer for temporarily storing the altered media.

23. A server, comprising a controller to:

receive a library of metadata pointers to altered media, wherein the altered media is created by a user of an interactive television (iTV) network from a procured channel in the iTV network; and

present a media on demand (MoD) option for access to the altered media using the library of metadata pointers to the altered media.

24. The server of claim 23, wherein the controller is operable to store the library of metadata pointers and enable a media processor operably coupled to the iTV network to access the altered media stored at a digital media recorder.

25. The server of claim 23, wherein the controller is operable to present the MoD option for access to the altered media to at least one of a mobile phone, a set-top box, and a computer by way of the iTV network.