Media distribution and management platform

• US 9,501,212 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2014
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: uStudio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: uStudio, Inc.
• Inventors: Marshall, Joshua P., Grogono, Jennifer L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bruckart, Benjamin R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huang, Jen-Shi
• Application Number:
  US14/472,548
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/40 using video transcoding, i.e. partial or full decoding of a coded input stream followed by re-encoding of the decoded output stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/436 using parallelised computational arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2385 Channel allocation H04N21/266 takes precedence; Bandwidth allocation H04N21/24 takes precedence ; allocation of channels according to the instantaneous demands of the users in time-division multiplex systems H04J3/1682; admission control, resource allocation in open networks H04L12/5692; arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896; negotiating bandwidth in wireless networks H04W28/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2547 Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention simplifies management of the “video lifecycle”. An embodiment includes one of more modules that streamline the video publishing process by abstracting technical steps such as video publishing, updating video, unpublishing video, retrieval or statistics concerning video, authorization to process video, validation of video, video metadata processing, video transcoding, and/or video transmission. Other embodiments are described herein.

Claims

1. At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions that when executed on a computing system, having at least one processor, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

receiving video into the at least one non-transitory machine readable medium;

displaying a single instance of a graphical user interface (GUI), via a hardware display, that simultaneously provides a user with options to distribute the video to first, second, and third distribution channels;

in response to user input supplied via the single instance of the GUI and via a hardware based input/output channel included in the system, determining the video, via the at least one processor, is to be distributed to the first and second distribution channels but not to the third distribution channel;

determining, via the at least one processor, first and second characteristics for the video, the first and second characteristics selected from a group comprising file type, container type, video duration, video resolution, frame rate, video compression bit rate, and audio compression bit rate;

transcoding the video, via the at least one processor, into transcoded first video having a first format corresponding to the first distribution channel;

transcoding the video, via the at least one processor, into transcoded second video having a second format corresponding to the second distribution channel, the first format unequal to the second format; and

not transcoding the video into transcoded third video having a third format corresponding to the third distribution channel;

packaging first metadata and the transcoded first video, via the at least one processor, into a first container and second metadata and the transcoded second video into a second container; and

publishing the first container to the first channel and the second container to the second channel.

2. The at least one medium of claim 1, the method comprising receiving first metric data for the published first container and second metric data for the published second container;

wherein the first metric data is formatted differently from the second metric data.

3. The at least one medium of claim 2, the method comprising normalizing the first and second metric data into common normalized data corresponding to the both the first and second metric data.

4. The at least one medium of claim 1, the method comprising:

receiving, from the user, first account credentials corresponding to the first channel and second account credentials corresponding to the second channel;

accessing the first channel via the first account credentials and the second channel via the second account credentials; and

publishing the first container to the first channel and the second container to the second channel in response to accessing the first and second channels.

5. The at least one medium of claim 1, the method comprising:

in response to the user input supplied via the a single instance of the GUI, determining which first channel information is necessary for the first channel and which second channel information is necessary for the second channel;

after determining which first channel information is necessary for the first channel and which second channel information is necessary for the second channel;

requesting the first and second channel information from the user;

wherein the first channel information is unequal to the second channel information.

6. The at least one medium of claim 5, wherein the first channel information includes one of a username, a password, a feed title, a file pointer, and a representative frame from the video.

7. At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions that when executed on a computing system cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

receiving video into the at least one medium;

displaying a single instance of a graphical user interface (GUI), via a display, that simultaneously provides a user with options to distribute the video to first, second, and third distribution channels;

in response to user input supplied via the GUI and an input/output channel included in the system, determining the video is to be distributed to the first and second distribution channels but not to the third distribution channel;

determining first and second characteristics for the video, the first and second characteristics selected from a group comprising file type, container type, video duration, video resolution, frame rate, video compression bit rate, and audio compression bit rate;

in response to the user input supplied via the GUI, transcoding the video into (a) transcoded first video having a first format corresponding to the first distribution channel; and

(b) transcoded second video having a second format corresponding to the second distribution channel, the first format unequal to the second format;

avoiding transcoding the video into transcoded third video having a third format corresponding to the third distribution channel based on the user not selecting the third distribution channel via the user input;

packaging first metadata and the transcoded first video into a first container and second metadata and the transcoded second video into a second container; and

publishing the first container to the first channel and the second container to the second channel.

8. The at least one medium of claim 7, the method comprising receiving first metric data for the published first container and second metric data for the published second container;

wherein the first metric data is formatted differently from the second metric data.

9. The at least one medium of claim 8, the method comprising normalizing the first and second metric data into common normalized data corresponding to the both the first and second metric data.

10. The at least one medium of claim 7, the method comprising:

receiving, from the user, first account credentials corresponding to the first channel and second account credentials corresponding to the second channel;

accessing the first channel via the first account credentials and the second channel via the second account credentials; and

publishing the first container to the first channel and the second container to the second channel in response to accessing the first and second channels.

11. The at least one medium of claim 7, the method comprising:

in response to the user input supplied via the a single instance of the GUI, determining which first channel information is necessary for the first channel and which second channel information is necessary for the second channel;

after determining which first channel information is necessary for the first channel and which second channel information is necessary for the second channel;

requesting the first and second channel information from the user;

wherein the first channel information is unequal to the second channel information.

12. The at least one medium of claim 11, wherein the first channel information includes one of a username, a password, a feed title, a file pointer, and a representative frame from the video.