METHOD FOR ADDRESSING ON-DEMAND TV PROGRAM CONTENT ON TV SERVICES PLATFORM OF A DIGITAL TV SERVICES PROVIDER
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Abstract
Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many, new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses.
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27 Claims
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21. A method, comprising:
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(a) providing, to a mobile Internet-connected digital device, a viewer interface application configured to share video-on-demand program content from a citizen content publisher associated with the mobile Internet-connected digital device to a cable tuner associated with a cable TV subscriber; (b) receiving, at a television service platform from the mobile Internet-connected digital device, login credentials; (c) verifying, by the television service platform, that the login credentials are associated with a registered user account; (d) transmitting, to the mobile Internet-connected digital device, an electronic authorization for the viewer interface application to access privileges associated with the registered user account; (e) receiving, at the television service platform from the mobile Internet-connected digital device, a request to share, with the cable TV subscriber, video-on-demand program content uploaded from the citizen content publisher; (f) receiving, at the television service platform from the mobile Internet-connected digital device, the video-on-demand program content; (g) transmitting, to the cable tuner, a notification of the availability of the video-on-demand program content; (h) receiving, at the television service platform, a request from the cable tuner to access the video-on-demand program content; and (i) transmitting, to the cable tuner, the video-on-demand program content. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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