Indicating unavailability of an uploaded video file that is being bitrate encoded

• US 9,111,299 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2014
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jain, Priyanka, Kamath, Durgadatt R., Nair, Kishore
• Primary Examiner(s): TITCOMB, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US14/520,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20150039449A1
• Time in Patent Office: 301 Days
• Field of Search: 715/748
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2225 Local VOD servers

Abstract

A system for indicating the unavailability of an already uploaded video file is provided. The system includes an advertiser system providing a graphical user interface for uploading a video file to a database and an ad serving system communicatively coupled to the database that receives the uploaded video file. A creative asset processing system is communicatively coupled to the ad serving system and advertiser system and receives the uploaded video file to process the uploaded video file by performing bit rate encoding on the uploaded video file. The bit rate encoding generates a plurality of encoded video files of the uploaded video file having respective bitrates. The advertiser system displays a set of menu options on the graphical user interface for each of the encoded video files.

Claims

1. A system for indicating the unavailability of an already uploaded video file, comprising:

an advertiser system providing a graphical user interface for uploading a video file to a database;

an ad serving system communicatively coupled to the database that receives the uploaded video file; and

a creative asset processing system communicatively coupled to the ad serving system and advertiser system that receives the uploaded video file and processes the uploaded video file to perform bit rate encoding on the uploaded video file to generate two or more encoded video files of the uploaded video file, each of the two or more encoded video files having a different bitrate,

wherein the advertiser system displays a set of menu options on the graphical user interface for each of the encoded video files having a different bitrate.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of menu options are displayed in response to the creative asset processing system completing the bit rate encoding on the uploaded video file.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of menu options includes an option to preview the encoded video file.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of menu options includes an option to assign the encoded video file to an ad group.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface allows an advertiser to generate an online advertisement by selecting one or more the encoded video files having a different bitrate to include in an ad creative.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface provides advertisers access to ad templates for generating online advertisements.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface displays a uniform resource locator for each of the each of the encoded video files.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the set of menu options is disabled during bit rate encoding of the uploaded video files.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one the set of menu options is automatically enabled upon completion of bit rate encoding of the uploaded video files.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the advertiser system displays further displays an indicator the graphical user interface during bit rate encoding indicating that the file is unavailable for processing except for bitrate encoding.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the advertiser system provides access to the graphical user interface from a mobile device, including a personal digital assistant or a cellular telephone.

12. A computer-implemented method for indicating the unavailability of an already uploaded video file, comprising:

providing a graphical user interface for uploading a video file to a database for an online system;

receiving, by one or more processors, an uploaded video file to the online system;

performing, by one or more processors, bitrate encoding processing on the uploaded video file to generate two or more encoded video files of the uploaded video file, each of the two or more encoded video file having a different bitrate;

updating, upon completion of the bitrate encoding processing, the graphical user interface to display a set of menu interface elements associated with each encoded video file from the two or more encoded video files, each set of menu interface elements allowing a user to access a set of menu options associated with one of the two or more encoded video files.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the set of menu options includes an option to preview the encoded video file.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the set of menu options includes an option to assign the encoded video file to an ad group.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising generating an online advertisement by selecting one or more the encoded video files having a different bitrate to include in an ad creative.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising displaying, on the graphical user interface, a uniform resource locator for each of the each of the encoded video files.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein at least one the set of menu options is automatically displayed upon completion of bit rate encoding of the uploaded video files.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the uploaded video file is received from a mobile device.

19. A system indicating the unavailability of an already uploaded video file, comprising:

a means for receiving an uploaded video file to an online system;

a means for performing bitrate encoding processing on the uploaded video file to generate two or more encoded video files of the uploaded video file, each of the two or more encoded video file having a different bitrate;

a means for providing a graphical user interface having a set of menu interface elements associated with each encoded video file from the two or more encoded video files, each set of menu interface elements allowing a user to access a set of menu options associated with one of the two or more encoded video files.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising a means for accessing the two or more encoded video files to assign the encoded video files to an ad creative.