Forward path multi-media management system with end user feedback to distributed content sources
First Claim
1. A Forward Path Multi-Media Management System for wirelessly transmitting end user generated content from a plurality of wireless end user devices to selected ones of said wireless end user devices, comprising:
- a content integrator for receiving multi-media content from at least one of a multi-media content source and wireless end user devices;
a unidirectional wireless forward broadcast path, connected to and shared by a plurality of wireless end user devices, for concurrently transmitting multi-media content from the content integrator to the plurality of wireless end user devices;
a plurality of wireless private reverse communication paths each separate from the unidirectional wireless forward broadcast path and unique to each of the plurality of wireless end user devices, and concurrently operational with said unidirectional forward broadcast path, for transmitting end user content modification data which is responsive to presently received end user generated content from each of the plurality of wireless end user devices to dynamically modify end user generated content transmitted to said selected ones of said wireless end user devices over said unidirectional forward broadcast path;
a feedback accumulator, responsive to receipt of said end user input data received from said selected wireless end user devices over said reverse path, for accumulating said end user input data; and
a content integrator for generating a modified multi-media content data stream by modifying multi-media content data stream based on said accumulated end user input data.
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Abstract
The Forward Path Multi-Media Management System architecture enables end user devices to share a common wireless forward path of a multicast communication architecture in which the forward path delivered content is dynamically changed or modified based on a real-time, near-real-time, or delay-time basis via aggregated reverse path feedback from at least one of a plurality of end user devices. The Forward Path Multi-Media Management System periodically or continuously aggregates the feedback input received via the reverse path (having wired and/or wireless connectivity), modifies the forward path multi-media content, and delivers this dynamically modified multi-media content to the then connected population of end user devices via a wireless forward path multicast in a repetitive closed loop fashion.
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22 Claims
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1. A Forward Path Multi-Media Management System for wirelessly transmitting end user generated content from a plurality of wireless end user devices to selected ones of said wireless end user devices, comprising:
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a content integrator for receiving multi-media content from at least one of a multi-media content source and wireless end user devices; a unidirectional wireless forward broadcast path, connected to and shared by a plurality of wireless end user devices, for concurrently transmitting multi-media content from the content integrator to the plurality of wireless end user devices; a plurality of wireless private reverse communication paths each separate from the unidirectional wireless forward broadcast path and unique to each of the plurality of wireless end user devices, and concurrently operational with said unidirectional forward broadcast path, for transmitting end user content modification data which is responsive to presently received end user generated content from each of the plurality of wireless end user devices to dynamically modify end user generated content transmitted to said selected ones of said wireless end user devices over said unidirectional forward broadcast path; a feedback accumulator, responsive to receipt of said end user input data received from said selected wireless end user devices over said reverse path, for accumulating said end user input data; and a content integrator for generating a modified multi-media content data stream by modifying multi-media content data stream based on said accumulated end user input data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of operating a Forward Path Multi-media Management System for wirelessly transmitting end user modified content from a content server to a plurality of wireless end user devices, comprising:
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receiving multi-media content from at least one of a multi-media content source and wireless end user devices; wirelessly transmitting a multi-media content data stream from the content server over a unidirectional forward broadcast path concurrently to selected ones of said wireless end user devices using a communication protocol with guaranteed delivery and guaranteed order of packet delivery; transmitting, concurrently operational with wirelessly transmitting a multi-media content data stream on said unidirectional forward broadcast path, end user content modification data which is responsive to presently received end user generated content, on a plurality of wireless private reverse communication paths, each separate from the unidirectional wireless forward broadcast path and unique to each of the plurality of wireless end user devices, to the content server to dynamically modify said end user generated content transmitted to said selected wireless end user devices over said unidirectional forward broadcast path; accumulating, in response to receipt of said end user content modification data received from said selected wireless end user devices over said plurality of wireless private reverse communication paths, said end user content modification data; and generating a modified content by modifying the multi-media content data stream based on the accumulated end user content modification data received from said wireless end user devices. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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