Portable screening room

• US 20060164422A1
• Filed: 01/24/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Starz Media LLC (Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation)
• Original Assignee: IDT Corporation
• Inventors: Beauvois, Chris, Wurtzel, Yitzchak, Rozenblat, Ilya
• Granted Patent: US 7,533,182 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A method and system are provided for screening media segments received from at least one originator. The method includes receiving at least one media segment from an originator, providing the media segment to at least one screener, associating feedback from the at least one screener with the at least one segment, thereby obtaining associated feedback, and delivering the associated feedback regarding the at least one segment to the originator of the media segment. The feedback provided to the originator is input by a screener using a portable screening room. The system for screening media segments includes an interface enabling communication between the originator of the media segment and at least one screener screening the media segment and a portable screening room used by the at least one screener to associate feedback with the media segment that is then sent to the originator.

Claims

1. A method for screening media segments, the method comprising:

receiving at least one segment from at least one originator;

providing the at least one segment to at least one screener;

associating feedback from the at least one screener with the at least one segment, thereby obtaining associated feedback; and

delivering the associated feedback to the at least one originator.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the providing includes providing the at least one segment to a portable screening room used by the at least one screener.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one segment includes an animation segment including at least one frame.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the associating includes associating metadata with the at least one segment.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the associated feedback includes feedback input by at least two screeners regarding the at least one segment.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

notifying the at least one screener that the at least one segment has been provided.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

scheduling a concurrent viewing of the at least one segment for at least two screeners using at least two portable screening rooms.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein the providing includes concurrently providing the at least one segment to at least two screeners.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the concurrently providing includes time-coordinating a concurrent viewing.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the concurrently providing includes frame-sequence-coordinating the concurrent viewing.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the delivering includes transmitting the associated feedback over a network to the at least one originator using bit-torrent protocol.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the delivering includes transmitting the associated feedback over a network to the at least one originator using K2B protocol.

13. A system for screening media segments comprising:

at least one interface configured to enable communication between at least one originator and at least one screener over a network; and

at least one portable screening room configured to associate feedback from the at least one screener using the at least one portable screening room with at least one segment, thereby obtaining associated feedback,

wherein the at least one interface is configured to receive at least one segment from the at least one originator and to transmit the associated feedback to the at least one originator.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one segment includes an animation segment including at least one frame.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one interface is configured to transmit the associated feedback over a network using bit-torrent protocol.

16. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one interface is configured to transmit the associated feedback over a network using K2B protocol.

17. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one interface is configured to provide the at least one segment to the at least one portable screening room used by the at least one screener.

18. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one portable screening room is also configured to associate metadata with the at least one media segment.

19. The system according to claim 13, wherein the associated feedback includes feedback input by at least two screeners regarding the at least one segment.

20. The system according to claim 13, further comprising:

at least one messaging system configured to notify the at least one screener that the at least one segment has been provided.

21. The system according to claim 20, wherein the at least one messaging system is further configured to notify the at least one originator that the at least one media segment has been screened.

22. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one interface is further configured to schedule a concurrent viewing of the at least one segment for at least two screeners.

23. The system according to claim 22, wherein the at least one interface is further configured to time-coordinate the concurrent viewing.

24. The system according to claim 22, wherein the at least one interface is further configured to frame-sequence-coordinate the concurrent viewing.

25. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one interface is located at a remote location from the at least one portable screening room.

26. A system for screening media segments, the system comprising:

means for receiving at least one segment from at least one originator;

means for providing the at least one segment to at least one screener;

a controller configured to associate feedback from the at least one screener with the at least one segment, thereby obtaining associated feedback; and

means for delivering the associated feedback to the at least one originator.

27. The system according to claim 26, further comprising:

means for notifying the at least one screener that the at least one segment has been provided.

28. The system according to claim 26, further comprising:

means for scheduling a concurrent viewing of the at least one segment for at least two screeners.

29. The system according to claim 26, wherein the means for providing includes means for concurrently providing the at least one segment to at least two screeners.

30. The system according to claim 29, wherein the means for concurrently providing includes means for time-coordinating a concurrent viewing.

31. The system according to claim 29, wherein the means for concurrently providing includes means for frame-sequence-coordinating a concurrent viewing.

32. A computer program product storing program instructions for execution on a computer system, which when executed by the computer system causes the computer system to perform a method for screening media segments, the method comprising:

receiving at least one segment from at least one originator;

providing the at least one segment to at least one screener;

associating feedback from the at least one screener with the at least one segment, thereby obtaining associated feedback; and

delivering the associated feedback to the at least one originator.