System and method to provide media programs for synthetic channels
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1. A method, comprising:
- uploading media objects of different file types including audio-only files and audio/video files to a website hosted on a server;
accessing the website with a web-based application to schedule and organize the media objects including the audio-only files and audio/video files into a media program;
establishing a synthetic channel as a channel among a plurality of broadcast channels of an interactive video casting system;
provisioning the synthetic channel with information to access and display the media program if the synthetic channel is selected by a client terminal; and
providing the media program to the client terminal via the synthetic channel.
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Abstract
An individual can upload media objects to a server and specify a manner in which the media objects are to be played as a media program to an end user. The media program can be provided to the end user via a synthetic channel, which can be tuned to by the end user as if tuning to a conventional television broadcast channel. Information related to the synthetic channel such as media program listings, can be provided in an electronic program guide. If a client terminal of the end user is tuned to the synthetic channel, the media program(s) scheduled by the individual who uploaded the media objects are streamed to the client terminal for viewing by the end user.
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1. A method, comprising:
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uploading media objects of different file types including audio-only files and audio/video files to a website hosted on a server; accessing the website with a web-based application to schedule and organize the media objects including the audio-only files and audio/video files into a media program; establishing a synthetic channel as a channel among a plurality of broadcast channels of an interactive video casting system; provisioning the synthetic channel with information to access and display the media program if the synthetic channel is selected by a client terminal; and providing the media program to the client terminal via the synthetic channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An article of manufacture, comprising:
a machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions to; receive media objects of different file types including audio-only files and audio/video files that are uploaded to a website hosted on a server; schedule and organize the media objects including the audio-only files and audio/video files into a media program based on user entered inputs to the website; designate a synthetic channel as a channel among a plurality of broadcast channels of an interactive video casting system; provision the synthetic channel with information to access and display the media program if the synthetic channel is selected by a client terminal; and provide the media program to the client terminal via the synthetic channel. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. An electronic program guide (EPG), comprising:
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a first set of displayable programming information related to programs available via a group of broadcast channels of an interactive video casting system; a second set of displayable programming information related to a media program available via a synthetic channel different from broadcast channels among the group of broadcast channels, the media program including media objects of different file types including audio-only files and audio/video files and organized and scheduled by a web-based application; and a component to allow reception of instructions to access and display the media program if the synthetic channel is selected. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system, comprising:
an interactive video casting network capable to provide programs via broadcast channels to a client terminal, at least one of the broadcast channels comprising a synthetic channel capable to provide the client terminal with a media program having media objects of different file types including audio-only files and audio/video files uploaded via a communication network to a website, wherein the media objects including the audio-only files and audio/video files are organized and scheduled by a web-based application, the interactive video casting network capable to provision the synthetic channel with information to access and display the media program if the synthetic channel is selected by the client terminal. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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