System and method for digital media content creation and distribution

• US 9,848,236 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2013
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Media Pointe Inc.
• Original Assignee: MediaPOINTE, Inc.
• Inventors: Villoria, Stephen, Bergner, Kevin, Block, James P
• Primary Examiner(s): LYNCH, SHARON S
• Application Number:
  US13/917,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20140331243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,650 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2838 Distribution of signals within a home automation network, e.g. involving splitting/multiplexing signals to/from different paths adaptations of television systems for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution H04N7/106; hybrid transport H04L12/6418; home network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25816 involving client authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/262 Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists scheduling strategies for dispatcher in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/4881; arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/06; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a time schedule or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43622 Interfacing an external recording device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand

Abstract

A method and system for providing on-site content delivery and on-demand content access. The method comprising recording digital media content on a DMR device, managing distribution of the digital media content to one or more remote devices, automatically distributing the digital media content to the one or more remote devices, the distributed digital media content configured for local hosting at the one or more remote devices, and monitoring consumption of the digital media content distributed to the one or remote devices.

Claims

1. A method for providing on-site content delivery and on-demand content access, the method comprising:

detecting, by a sensor coupled to a processor device, signals from a wireless portable identification key device having associated therewith predefined instructions that uniquely create, tag, and distribute digital media content for each user, wherein the sensor comprises a reader selected from the group consisting of a smartcard reader, universal serial bus (USB) port, radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensor, magnetic card reader, and a bar code reader;

retrieving, by the processor device, data associated with the wireless portable identification key device including profile information that identifies a specific user accessing the wireless portable identification key device and device-specific parameters defining a workflow for a pre-configured user session for the specific user to operate a plurality of devices, determined to be located at different locations, that receive the device-specific parameters;

executing, by the processor device, the workflow for the pre-configured user session for the specific user, wherein the execution of the workflow comprises the processor device

configuring a digital media recorder (DMR) device to record digital media content and initiating automated processes for operating ancillary equipment according to the device-specific parameters and a location of the specific user corresponding to one of the different locations determined in connection with the wireless portable identification key device;

recording digital media content on the DMR device by creating one or more files containing the digital media content based on the device-specific parameters and associating the recorded digital media content with the profile information;

tagging the created one or more files with information based on the profile information and with metadata that identifies the pre-configured user session;

ending the pre-configured user session upon the sensor detecting an absence of the signals from the wireless key device;

managing distribution of the digital media content to one or more remote devices;

automatically distributing the digital media content to the one or more remote devices;

receiving polling requests from the one or more player devices to refresh the distributed digital media content; and

monitoring consumption of the digital media content in order to provide a usage report of the digital media content.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the digital media content includes at least one of:

orientation and training content, marketing content, corporate messages, and promotion content.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the usage report further includes a list of digital media content titles and a count of consumption for each of the digital media content titles.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising providing in the usage report identification of the one or more remote devices and a count of consumption for digital media content titles corresponding to the identification of the one or more remote devices.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising streaming of the digital media content by the one or more remote devices.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein recording digital media content on the DMR device is based on a configuration associated with the portable identification key device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein managing distribution of the digital media content to the one or more remote devices is based on a configuration associated with the portable identification key device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein automatically distributing the digital media content to the one or more remote devices is based on a configuration associated with the portable identification key device.

9. A system for on-site content delivery and on-demand content access, the system comprising:

a sensor configured to detect signals from a wireless portable identification key device having associated therewith predefined instructions that uniquely create, tag, and distribute digital media content, wherein the sensor comprises a reader selected from the group consisting of a smartcard reader, universal serial bus (USB) port, radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensor, magnetic card reader, and a bar code reader;

a processor coupled to the sensor; and

a memory having executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

retrieve data associated with the wireless portable identification key device including profile information that identifies a specific user accessing the wireless portable identification key device and device-specific parameters defining a workflow for a pre-configured user session for the specific user to operate a plurality of devices, determined to be located at different locations, that receive the device-specific parameters; and

execute the workflow for the pre-configured user session for the specific user, wherein the execution of the workflow comprises the processor

configuring a digital media recorder (DMR) device to record digital media content and initiating automated processes for operating ancillary equipment according to the device-specific parameters and a location of the specific user corresponding to one of the different locations determined in connection with the wireless portable identification key device;

recording digital media content on the DMR device by creating one or more files containing the digital media content based on the device-specific parameters and associating the recorded digital media content with the profile information;

tagging the created one or more files with information based on the profile information and with metadata that identifies the pre-configured user session;

ending the pre-configured user session upon the sensor detecting an absence of the signals from the wireless key device;

managing distribution of the digital media content to one or more remote devices,

automatically distributing the digital media content to the one or more remote devices,

receiving polling requests from the one or more remote devices to refresh the distributed digital media content, and

monitoring consumption of the digital media content in order to provide a usage report of the digital media content.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the digital media content includes at least one of:

orientation and training content, marketing content, corporate messages, and promotion content.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the usage report includes a list of digital media content titles and a count of consumption for each of the digital media content titles.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the processor is configured to provide in the usage report identification of the one or more remote devices and a count of consumption for digital media content titles corresponding to the identification of the one or more remote devices.

13. The system of claim 9 wherein the one or more remote devices streams the digital media content.

14. The system of claim 9 wherein the portable identification key device includes the predefined instructions to create, tag, and distribute the digital media content.