MEDIA MANAGEMENT, PRODUCTION, AND DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20090037467A1
• Filed: 08/08/2007
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Era Digital Media Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Era Digital Media Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHIU, Fu-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/835,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037467A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A media management, production, and delivery system and method for providing an efficient means of producing and delivering text and media are disclosed. Original text such as a news story is provided by a media source. Media relevant to the original text is edited and linked to the text. The edited and linked media and text is published to a television station, television, web site, and mobile device. Users select a news story and can read the text article while the media plays in a media player window. The original and edited versions of the text and media are stored in a media archive and available for future use. The timing of publishing media is selectable so that a media playlist can be created for broadcasting.

Claims

1. A media management, production, and delivery system comprising:

a media source for providing original media;

a wire service for providing original text;

a media database server for storing the original media and the original text;

an editing system for editing the original media and the original text and for linking relevant media to relevant text; and

a publishing system for publishing edited media and edited text.

2. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, further comprising:

a media archive server for storing the edited media and edited text.

3. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, the media source comprising a newswire service.

4. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, the publishing system publishing the edited media and edited text to a television station, a television, a mobile device, a wireless mobile device, a network, a computer, an Internet, or a combination of these.

5. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second media source for supplying user media for the editing system to utilize.

6. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, where the original text is a news story.

7. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, where the original media is uploaded by a private individual.

8. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, where the original media, the original text, the edited media, and the edited text are searchable.

9. The media management, production, and delivery system of claim 1, where a plurality of media files are associated with a single text file.

10. A method for managing, producing, and delivering news comprising:

editing original text provided by a media source;

editing original media relevant to the original text;

linking edited media and edited text; and

publishing linked edited media and edited text.

11. The method for managing, producing, and delivering news of claim 10, where the linked edited media and edited text are published to a television station, a television, a mobile device, a wireless mobile device, a network, a computer, an Internet, or a combination of these.

12. The method for managing, producing, and delivering news of claim 10, where the media source is a newswire service.

13. The method for managing, producing, and delivering news of claim 10, where the original media is uploaded by a private individual.

14. The method for managing, producing, and delivering news of claim 10, further comprising:

storing the linked edited media and edited text.

15. A method for delivering news media comprising:

providing a story content list comprising images associated with news stories;

providing a media player window for displaying media when a user selects an image in the story content list; and

providing a text window for displaying the news story associated with the media.

16. The method for delivering news media of claim 15, further comprising:

providing a menu for navigating to different categories of news.

17. The method for delivering news media of claim 15, where top news stories have larger images than other news stories.

18. The method for delivering news media of claim 15, further comprising:

providing an option to change size of the media player window.

19. The method for delivering news media of claim 15, further comprising:

providing an automatically scrolling window displaying breaking news stories.

20. The method for delivering news media of claim 15, further comprising:

providing an option to continuously stream the media to a user.