Methods and systems for streaming advertising content
First Claim
1. A method for concatenating digital content, comprising:
- receiving at a first server a selection of at least one streaming selected content from a hand-held device;
transmitting from the first server, the selection to a second server, wherein the second server is different from the first server;
receiving at the first server a first location identifier and a second location identifier from the second server, wherein the first location identifier corresponds to the at least one streaming selected content and the second location identifier corresponds to a streaming unselected content;
communicating with a first streaming server and a second streaming server by the first server wherein the first streaming server comprises the streaming selected content and the second streaming server comprises the streaming unselected content;
communicating from the first server to the hand-held device a play time of the streaming selected content and the streaming unselected content;
concatenating the streaming selected content and the streaming unselected content; and
transmitting from the first server the concatenated streaming digital content to the hand-held device.
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Abstract
One illustrative method for concatenating an unselected content stream (such as advertising) with a selected content stream to create a digital content stream includes interactions between a first server and a second server. The first server can receive a selection of the selected content stream from a hand-held device, transmit the selection to a second server, receive a playlist having location identifiers that identify at least the selected content stream and an unselected content stream, and communicate with a plurality of streaming servers collectively having streaming digital content including the selected and unselected content streams. The first server further communicates to the hand-held device a play time of the streaming digital content, concatenates the streaming digital content from the plurality of streaming servers, and provides the concatenated streaming digital content to the hand-held device as a single content stream.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for concatenating digital content, comprising:
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receiving at a first server a selection of at least one streaming selected content from a hand-held device; transmitting from the first server, the selection to a second server, wherein the second server is different from the first server; receiving at the first server a first location identifier and a second location identifier from the second server, wherein the first location identifier corresponds to the at least one streaming selected content and the second location identifier corresponds to a streaming unselected content; communicating with a first streaming server and a second streaming server by the first server wherein the first streaming server comprises the streaming selected content and the second streaming server comprises the streaming unselected content; communicating from the first server to the hand-held device a play time of the streaming selected content and the streaming unselected content; concatenating the streaming selected content and the streaming unselected content; and transmitting from the first server the concatenated streaming digital content to the hand-held device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for delivering streaming digital content, comprising:
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a first server configured to communicate with a hand-held device, a second server, a first streaming server comprising streaming selected content and a second streaming server comprising streaming unselected content, wherein the second server is different from the first server; wherein the first server is further configured to communicate a selection from the hand-held device to the second server and receive from the second server a first location identifier, wherein the first location identifier corresponds to the streaming selected content and the second location identifier corresponds to the streaming unselected content, and the first server is further configured to communicate with the first streaming server to receive the streaming selected content and communicate with the second streaming server to receive the streaming unselected content, the first server further configured to transmit concatenated streaming digital content to the hand-held device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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