SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZED INTERACTIVE LAYERS FOR MEDIA BROADCAST

• US 20140344856A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kaltura Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Watchitoo, Inc. (Kaltura Incorporated)
• Inventors: Zarom, Rony
• Granted Patent: US 9,277,269 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/37
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/106 Receiver-side switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/33 by plural channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/82 using signals not modulated onto a carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/06 Arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/266 Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

A system and method for broadcasting to a plurality of client side devices over a network, such as the Internet, using visual layers for assembly in a media broadcast. In response to receiving input for simulating the media broadcast defined by content objects and arrangement of each layer in the simulation, transmitting the content objects for each of a plurality of the layers in a different live stream to each of the client side devices and transmitting design parameters defining the arrangement of the layers in the simulation to each of the client side devices. Each of the client side devices may be adapted to assemble the layers of a media broadcast according to the content objects and design parameters of the transmissions so that the content objects and design of the media broadcast assembled at each of the client side devices substantially matches that of the simulated media broadcast.

Claims

1. A method for broadcasting to a plurality of client side devices comprising:

receiving input for simulating a media broadcast comprising a plurality of media layers, wherein each layer is defined by content objects and arrangement in the simulation;

triggering the transmission of the content objects for each of a plurality of the layers in a different live stream to each of the client side devices; and

triggering the transmission of design parameters defining the arrangement of the layers in the simulation to each of the client side devices, wherein each of the client side devices is adapted to assemble the layers of a media broadcast according to the content objects and design parameters of the transmissions so that the content objects and design of the media broadcast assembled at each of the client side devices substantially matches that of the simulated media broadcast.

2. The method of claim 1 comprising displaying the media broadcast simultaneously at all the client side devices.

3. The method of claim 1 comprising displaying the media broadcast at each of the client side devices in real-time as the media broadcast is simulated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the layers is personalized for each client side device according to the personal information associated with the client side device user(s).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the layers is interactive updating the content instantiated in at least one of the content objects in response to receiving input from a user interacting with the layers at the client side devices.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein interactive content updates are updated remotely from a source server.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the content for interactive updates is transmitted with the layer content objects and is stored at the client side devices to locally update the interactive layer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the media broadcast assembled at each the client side devices includes the same content objects as the simulated media broadcast, but which are instantiated differently at each of a plurality of the client side devices.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the media broadcast is simulated at a staging environment interface providing links to media content from a plurality of different servers.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the media broadcast is simulated at a centralized server.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the media broadcast is simulated at a client side.

12. A system for broadcasting to a plurality of client side devices comprising:

a server to receive input from a moderator device for simulating a media broadcast at the plurality of client side devices, the broadcast comprising a plurality of media layers, wherein each layer is defined by content objects and arrangement in the simulation, wherein receiving the input triggers the server to transmit to each of the client side devices the content objects for each of a plurality of the layers in a different live stream and design parameters defining the arrangement of the layers in the simulation, wherein each of the client side devices is adapted to assemble the layers of a media broadcast according to the content objects and design parameters of the transmissions so that the content objects and design of the media broadcast assembled at each of the client side devices substantially matches that of the simulated media broadcast.