Authoring system for IPTV network

• US 9,131,285 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2014
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chang, Hisao, Arellano, Javier
• Primary Examiner(s): Bruckart, Benjamin R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bantamoi, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US14/253,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20140229973A1
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 725/31
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/40 Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording

Abstract

In an embodiment, a system and method permit an IPTV subscriber to display on a channel of an IPTV network video data from a subscriber video database. The system may include, in addition to the IPTV network and the subscriber database, an IPTV server and an IPTV set top box. The IPTV set top box is configured to receive commands causing the IPTV set top box to retrieve video data from an IPTV subscriber database, display the video data on an IPTV display unit; and to transmit the video data over an IPTV network to an IPTV server. The IPTV server is configured to transmit the video data from the IPTV server over the IPTV network such that the video data is displayable on a channel of the IPTV network.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor, responsive to executing the instructions, performs operations comprising;

receiving multimedia data from content provider equipment via a network;

decrypting the multimedia data;

parsing the multimedia data to identify video data and audio data;

storing the video data;

receiving a voice command;

retrieving the video data in accordance with the voice command, wherein the retrieved video data comprises a sequence of frames;

receiving a verbal narrative supplied by a user of the network;

recording the verbal narrative;

associating the verbal narrative with the sequence of frames, wherein an interframe transition in the sequence is generated in accordance with an editing command corresponding to a cursor movement in a point-and-click command, and wherein a duration of a frame corresponds to a duration of the verbal narrative between each click; and

transmitting the sequence of frames with the verbal narrative over the network for storage in a database.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data is received via a network interface coupled to the device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise decoding the video data by a video decoder and decoding the audio data by an audio decoder subsequent to the parsing.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data is received from a content provider coupled to the network, and wherein the operations further comprise receiving a decryption key from the content provider.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise recognizing speech in the audio data.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a transcription of the speech recognized in the audio data.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a transcription of the verbal narrative comprising a text narrative; and

associating the text narrative with the video data.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the processor is coupled via the network to an automatic transcription engine performing the transcription and to a transcription database.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the text narrative is received in a language other than that of the verbal narrative.

10. A computer-readable storage device, comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving multimedia data from content provider equipment via a network;

parsing the multimedia data to identify video data and audio data;

storing the video data and the audio data in a video buffer and an audio buffer respectively;

receiving a verbal signal including a voice command and a verbal narrative;

retrieving the video data in accordance with the voice command, wherein the retrieved video data comprises a sequence of frames;

recording the verbal narrative;

associating the verbal narrative with the sequence of frames, wherein an interframe transition in the sequence is generated in accordance with an editing command corresponding to a cursor movement in a point-and-click command, and wherein a duration of a frame corresponds to a duration of the verbal narrative between each click; and

transmitting the sequence of frames with the verbal narrative over the network for storage.

11. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the multimedia data is received from a content provider coupled to the network, and wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a decryption key from the content provider; and

decrypting the multimedia data.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise recognizing speech in the audio data.

13. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a transcription of the speech recognized in the audio data.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a transcription of the verbal narrative comprising a text narrative, and wherein the processor is coupled via the network to an automatic transcription engine performing the transcription and to a transcription database.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein the text narrative is received in a language other than that of the verbal narrative.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor of a network device, multimedia data via the network;

parsing, by the processor, the multimedia data to provide a video data stream and an audio data stream;

receiving, by the processor, a voice command;

storing, by the processor, video data from the video data stream;

retrieving, by the processor, the video data in accordance with the voice command, wherein the retrieved video data comprises a sequence of frames;

receiving, by the processor, a verbal narrative related to the video data;

recording, by the processor, the verbal narrative; and

associating, by the processor, the verbal narrative with the sequence of frames, wherein an interframe transition in the sequence is generated in accordance with an editing command corresponding to a cursor movement in a point-and-click command, and wherein a duration of a frame corresponds to a duration of the verbal narrative between each click.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the multimedia data is encrypted, and further comprising:

storing the video data and the audio data in a video buffer and an audio buffer respectively;

receiving a decryption key via the network; and

decrypting the multimedia data.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

recognizing speech in the audio data; and

receiving a transcription of the speech recognized in the audio data.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising receiving, by the processor, a transcription of the verbal narrative comprising a text narrative,

wherein the processor is coupled via the network to an automatic transcription engine performing the transcription and to a transcription database.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the text narrative is received in a language other than that of the verbal narrative.