System and method for providing a video media toolbar

• US 20090049122A1
• Filed: 08/21/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fliqz, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Fliqz, Inc.
• Inventors: Wayne, Benjamin, Drey, Kristopher Joseph
• Application Number:
  US12/196,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20090049122A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass networks security protocols H04L9/40; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The system and method preferably provides a toolbar to use in a network browser. The toolbar is preferably integrated within a suitable browser program graphical interface as a browser toolbar having its own toolbar graphical interface. The toolbar enables a video file to be selectively uploaded from a publisher computer to a service provider. An HTML video snippet is generated from the video file received from the publisher computer. The HTML video snippet enables access to the stored video file via a browser. The HTML video snippet is distributed to the publisher computer for placement in a publisher web page so as to enable the HTML video snippet to be selected via a browser, In response to the selection of the HTML video snippet, the video data file is played on the networked computer.

Claims

1. A method of distributing a video data file to a networked computer, the method comprising:

receiving a request for a toolbar from a client computer;

delivering a module to the client computer, the module adapted for installing the toolbar associated with a network browser on the client computer;

receiving a video data file from the client computer using the toolbar associated with the network browser on the client computer;

storing the video data file received from the client computer;

generating an HTML video snippet from the stored video data file, wherein the HTML video snippet enables accessing of the stored video data file; and

distributing the HTML video snippet to the client computer to enable placement of the HTML video snippet on a client webpage so as to enable the video data file to be played on the networked computer.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling rendering of the distributed HTML video snippet on the networked computer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein distributed HTML video snippet is accessible on the networked computer to play the stored video data file received from the client computer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the delivering of the module to the client computer comprises sending the module from a server system to the client computer for installation as the toolbar thereon.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the toolbar provides a toolbar graphical interface for integration into a browser application user interface, such that the toolbar graphical interface becomes a part of the browser application user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling selective customization by the client computer of attributes of the toolbar.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising viewing of the stored video data file on the networked computer.

8. A method of distributing a video data file to a viewer on a networked computer, the method comprising:

requesting download of a toolbar from a service provider computer to a publisher computer;

receiving a module adapted for installing the toolbar on the publisher computer;

installing the toolbar on a publisher computer;

selecting a video data file using the installed toolbar;

sending the selected video data file to the first computer using the toolbar;

receiving an HTML video snippet from the first computer;

wherein the HTML video snippet enables accessing of the video data file on the first computer; and

placing the HTML video snippet on a web page to enable the video data file to be played on the networked computer.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first computer comprises a web application server.

10. A system for distributing a video data file to a networked computer, the system comprising:

a first computer that provides a module adapted for installation as a toolbar;

a second computer configured to operate with the first computer that receives a request from a client computer for the toolbar and delivers the module to the client computer to enable the client computer to transfer a video data file to the second computer using the toolbar; and

a third computer that distributes the video data file as an HTML video snippet to the networked computer.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first computer is a web application server, the second computer is a web services server, and third computer is a content server.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the web application server provides a viewing module for rendering the distributed video snippet on the networked computer.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the content server stores the transferred video data file.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the web application server converts the received video data file from the client computer to the video snippet, wherein the video snippet is an HTML video snippet.

15. The system of claim 10, further comprising a database server for storing information regarding the video data file transferred from the client computer.

16. A method of distributing a video data file to a networked computer, the method comprising:

delivering a module to a publisher computer, wherein the module is adapted for installing a toolbar associated with a network browser on the publisher computer;

receiving a video data file from the publisher computer using the toolbar;

storing the video data file;

storing information regarding the video data file;

generating an HTML video snippet from the stored video data file, the HTML video snippet for providing access to the stored video data file; and

distributing the HTML video snippet to the publisher computer, so as to enable the HTML video snippet to be placed in a publisher web page that is accessible by the networked computer to enable the playing of the video data file.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising enabling rendering of the distributed HTML video snippet on the networked computer.

18. A system for distributing a video data file to a networked computer, the system comprising:

a web application server for delivering a module to a client computer, the module adapted for installation as a toolbar on the client computer;

a web services server for receiving a video data file from the client computer using the toolbar; and

a content server for distributing the video data file as a video snippet to the client computer to enable the client computer to incorporate the video snippet in a web page that the networked computer accesses and receives.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the web application server provides a viewing module for rendering the distributed video snippet on the networked computer.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the content server stores the transferred video data file.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the web application server calls the content server to provide the video data file for viewing on the networked computer.

22. The system of claim 18, further comprising a database server for storing information regarding the video data file transferred from the client computer.