Playlist Creator for Digital Media and Multimedia Scheduling and Delivery Platform

• US 20200137190A1
• Filed: 12/26/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jocelyn Co, Ronaldo Cordero Navarro
• Original Assignee: Jocelyn Co, Ronaldo Cordero Navarro
• Inventors: Navarro, Ronaldo Cordero, Co, Jocelyn
• Granted Patent: US 10,911,566 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

The system is a self-serve platform, which delivers user uploaded media and multimedia files, of varying playback durations, to a client computer connected to a digital display; which is set to receive executions for a scheduled playlist and punctually presents the playback of media and/or multimedia files in said playlist record. The system'"'"'s included functions for schedule generation, schedule selection, and playlist creation contain unique, and embedded automatic functions, provide the capacity for making scheduling and delivery of media and multimedia files reliable, accessible, and cost efficient.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of a playlist creator for punctual playback of scheduled media and multimedia files for a client system, comprising:

a process that identifies, by a computer processor, records in a database of scheduled media and/or multimedia files pending playback on a digital display or plurality of digital displays available in client network;

organizes said pending records of user-defined schedule items in chronological order pertinent to and for the next playlist scheduled for playback;

identifies vacant time slot(s) or temporal gaps, within the period encompassed by said next playlist, that could be situated between the scheduled start time of said next playlist and scheduled start time of the first media or multimedia file in said next playlist, between scheduled end time of said first media or multimedia file in said next playlist and the scheduled start time of the second media or multimedia file in said next playlist, between similar points involving respective scheduled end time and scheduled start time of ensuing series of media and/or multimedia files in said next playlist, and/or between the scheduled end time of the last media or multimedia file in said next playlist and the scheduled end time of said next playlist;

fills said vacant time slot(s) with duration-specific filler media and/or multimedia files or combination of filler media and/or multimedia files of varying durations available from a database to maintain scheduling integrity involving user scheduled media and/or multimedia files, within respective playlist, for punctual playback on client system;

and determines when to start playback of said next playlist on said client system.

2. A scheduled media and multimedia playlist creation system for punctual playback for a client system, comprising:

a computer processor, a routing engine executing on the computer processor and configured to;

identify, by a computer processor, records in a database of scheduled media and/or multimedia files pending playback on a digital display or plurality of digital displays available in client network;

organize said pending records of user-defined schedule items in chronological order pertinent to and for the next playlist scheduled for playback;

identify vacant time slot(s) or temporal gaps, within the period encompassed by said next playlist, that could be situated between the scheduled start time of said next playlist and scheduled start time of the first media or multimedia file in said next playlist, between scheduled end time of said first media or multimedia file in said next playlist and the scheduled start time of the second media or multimedia file in said next playlist, between similar points involving respective scheduled end time and scheduled start time of ensuing series of media and/or multimedia files in said next playlist, and/or between the scheduled end time of the last media or multimedia file in said next playlist and the scheduled end time of said next playlist;

fill said vacant time slot(s) with duration-specific filler media and/or multimedia files or combination of filler media and/or multimedia files of varying durations available from a database to maintain scheduling integrity involving user scheduled media and/or multimedia files, within respective playlist, for punctual playback on client system;

and determine when to start playback of said next playlist on said client system.

3. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions for a playlist creator for scheduled media and/ormultimedia files for a client system, the plurality of instructions comprising functionality to:

a computer processor, a routing engine executing on the computer processor and configured to;

identify, by a computer processor, records in a database of scheduled media and/or multimedia files pending playback on a digital display or plurality of digital displays available in client network;

organize said pending records of user-defined schedule items in chronological order pertinent to and for the next playlist scheduled for playback;

identify vacant time slot(s) or temporal gaps, within the period encompassed by said next playlist, that could be situated between the scheduled start time of said next playlist and scheduled start time of the first media or multimedia file in said next playlist, between scheduled end time of said first media or multimedia file in said next playlist and the scheduled start time of the second media or multimedia file in said next playlist, between similar points involving respective scheduled end time and scheduled start time of ensuing series of media and/or multimedia files in said next playlist, and/or between the scheduled end time of the last media or multimedia file in said next playlist and the scheduled end time of said next playlist;

fill said vacant time slot(s) with duration-specific filler media and/or multimedia files or combination of filler media and/or multimedia files of varying durations available from a database to maintain scheduling integrity involving user scheduled media and/or multimedia files, within respective playlist, for punctual playback on client system;

and determine when to start playback of said next playlist on said client system.