Media Content Redirection

• US 20180338165A1
• Filed: 01/10/2018
• Published: 11/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Swan, Mark, Mao, Weidong, Kotay, Sree, Vickers, Mark, Roowalla, Mohsin, Kennedy, Chris
• Granted Patent: US 10,582,230 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time

Abstract

A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user'"'"'s account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device and from a first device, a request to make multimedia content available to a second device, wherein the request comprises a resource address associated with the multimedia content;

based on a request to output the multimedia content via the second device, causing retrieval, by the computing device and based on the resource address, of a segment of the multimedia content;

receiving, by the computing device, the segment of the multimedia content;

transcoding, by the computing device and based on characteristics of the second device, the segment of the multimedia content; and

sending, to the second device and before receiving and transcoding an entirety of the multimedia content, the segment of the multimedia content.