MULTIMEDIA QUEUE SERVICES

摘要

Techniques are presented for providing multimedia queue services. A multimedia queue manager manages queues of subscribers. The queues include selections for multimedia. The multimedia queue manager schedules broadcasts for the selections and informs recording devices of the subscribers to record the selections during those broadcasts. Moreover, the multimedia queue manager updates the queues in response to actions of the subscribers and/or actions of the recoding devices of the subscribers.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
maintaining, by one or more processors, a plurality of queues among which each queue corresponds to a different subscriber among a plurality of subscribers, each queue being a list of media identifiers that identify media items selected by a corresponding subscriber of the plurality of subscribers, every queue including a common media identifier present in all of the queues, the common media identifier identifying a common media item selected by every subscriber of the plurality of subscribers; scheduling, by the one or more processors, delivery of the common media item to the plurality of subscribers based on a total number of queues in the plurality of queues; and communicating a notification via a network to a subscriber device of each of the plurality of subscribers of a time at which the scheduled delivery of the common media item is scheduled to occur.