System and methods for transmitting and distributing media content

• US 9,191,625 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2009
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Janos Redei, Xiaohan Wang
• Original Assignee: Janos Redei, Xiaohan Wang
• Inventors: Redei, Janos, Wang, Xiaohan
• Primary Examiner(s): Chae, Kyu
• Application Number:
  US12/567,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20100083303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,243 Days
• Field of Search: 725/74, 725/86, 725/105, 725/115, 725/117, 725/118, 725/134
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A technique for distributing high-quality, user-generated high definition (HD) video content on the web is presented. A system according to the technique may include a service provider including a user database, a catalog database, and a media library. The service provider may receive the HD video content from a user through a content submission method. A method according to the technique receives registration information for the HD video content to be shared and receives the HD video content from a user through a content submission method. The HD video content may then be further processed, such as transcoding to a streamable format using a massively parallel cloud computing platform.

Claims

1. A method for distributing media content on a network, the method comprising:

receiving, from a client computer by a media server, content description related to the media content via a first submission method, wherein the first submission method allows the content description to be received via the network which incorporates a content delivery network (CDN);

receiving, from the client computer by the media server, the media content via a second submission method, wherein the second submission method

allows the media content to be uploaded to the media server via a wireless mesh network connection which is separated from the first submission method,

cannot be accessed via the first submission method, and

provides a quicker upload bandwidth to the media server than the first submission method;

upon matching the content description with the media content, performing, by the media server, quality assurance analysis on the media content;

upon a determination that the media content has a quality below a predetermined threshold according to pre-specified criteria, restricting, by the media server, the distributing of the media content;

processing, by the media server, the media content based on the description information, wherein the processed media content is configured to be distributed over the network;

distributing, by the media server, the processed content via the network which incorporates the CDN;

monitoring, by the media server, the processing of the media content via the network; and

presenting, by the media server;

the processed media content via an immersive 3D interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second submission method allows the media content to be received via a self-service kiosk.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second submission method bypasses the first submission method during the receiving of the media content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the network exhibits a heterogeneous bandwidth constraint having an upstream bandwidth that is lower than a downstream bandwidth.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said processing of the media content further comprising:

transcoding the media content; and

editing the media content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable medium as a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method.