发明名称 Systems and methods for delivering content to a media content access device
摘要 An exemplary method includes a media content delivery system generating a supplemental content stream associated with a primary media content stream, the supplemental content stream including one or more supplemental content instances temporally aligned with one or more content moments in a media program represented by the primary media content stream, and facilitating concurrent streaming of the primary media content stream and the supplemental content stream to a media content access device, the streams configured for concurrent presentation by the media content access device in a user interface. A presentation of the supplemental content stream in the user interface may be transparent to a user during a presentation of a segment of the media program that is not part of the one or more content moments in the media program and visible to the user during the presentation of the one or more content moments in the media program.
申请公布号 US9491496(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.11.08
申请号 US201414267731 申请日期 2014.05.01
申请人 VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC. 发明人 Patadia Amit B.;Chakarapani Lakshmi N.
分类号 H04N21/236;H04N21/81;H04N21/2668;H04N21/2665;H04N21/266;H04N21/858;H04N21/854;H04N21/235 主分类号 H04N21/236
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主权项 1. A method comprising: generating, by a media content delivery system, a plurality of supplemental content streams associated with a primary media content stream, the generating comprising identifying, based on metadata for a media program represented by the primary media content stream, one or more content moments in the media program, andcreating the plurality of supplemental content streams to each include one or more supplemental content instances temporally aligned with the one or more content moments, wherein the plurality of supplemental content streams includes a first supplemental content stream associated with a first type of content moments and a second supplemental content stream associated with a second type of content moments; facilitating, by the media content delivery system, concurrent streaming of the primary media content stream and the plurality of supplemental content streams to a media content access device over a network, the primary media content stream and the plurality of supplemental content streams configured to facilitate concurrent, temporally aligned presentation by the media content access device of the one or more supplemental content instances and the one or more content moments during a playback of the media program by the media content access device; receiving, by the media content delivery system and from a user of the media content access device, a user input including an instruction to disable the second supplemental content stream; disabling, by the media content delivery system in response to the user input, the second supplemental content stream such that the one or more supplemental content instances included in the second supplemental content stream and associated with the second type of content moments are not provided for presentation to the user; and dynamically adjusting, by the media content delivery system while the first supplemental content stream is streamed to the media content access device, an allocation of bandwidth to the first supplemental content stream by increasing bandwidth of the first supplemental content stream at a start of a time period associated with a supplemental content instance included in the one or more supplemental content instances included in the first supplemental content stream and decreasing the bandwidth of the first supplemental content stream at an end of the time period associated with the supplemental content instance; wherein a presentation of the first supplemental content stream in a user interface displayed in a view on a single display screen is: transparent to the user of the media content access device during a presentation of a segment of the media program that is not part of the one or more content moments in the media program; andvisible to the user during the presentation of the one or more content moments in the media program.
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