METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL CONTENT, INCLUDING STREAMING MEDIA

• US 20080133701A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Syed Noman Kazmi, Vinay Polavarapu, William David Turner
• Inventors: Kazmi, Syed Noman, Turner, William David, Polavarapu, Vinay
• Granted Patent: US 8,595,340 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

Methods and systems for uploading, managing and delivering digital content, including streaming media. The system according to one embodiment allows receives digital content from the client, assigns a stream identifier (ID) to the content and stores the content. The client is given a playlist uniform resource locator (URL) for publishing on its web site, the URL including the stream ID. Activation of the URL by an end user causes the stream to be served to the end user, without the client receiving or providing an indication of the specifics of where the content was stored. An embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that defines one or more remote sites associated with each client.

Claims

1. A method for managing digital content of one or more clients, and providing the digital content to end users, the method comprising:

assigning one or more unique message queue to each client;

moving requests to access each client'"'"'s digital content to the message queue assigned to the client; and

processing the requests received in one of each client'"'"'s assigned message queues.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the request to access the client'"'"'s digital content is made by the client.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the client request includes a request to delete the content.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the client request includes a request to move the content.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the client request includes a request to copy the content.