Method and system for creating video channels for delivery of content from multiple platforms

摘要

A system for managing delivery of content from multiple platforms maintains data for various video channels. Some of the video channels are television channels, while others are over-the-top (OTT) video content sources such as video streaming websites. The system includes a package generation module by which a service provider may define a package of both traditional and OTT channels to offer to subscribers in a unified programming interface. When a user uses the interface to select a set of video channels, the system compiles the set of the video channels in a subscriber package of both television and OTT channels. The system assigns a name to the subscriber package, and it stores the defined package and name, along with other information about the package, in a data storage facility for offering to a subscriber of content from the service provider.

主权项

1. A system for managing channels of video content from multiple platforms, the system comprising: a data storage facility comprising data for a plurality of available video channels, wherein at least a portion of video channels are associated with over-the-top video content sources that are not under any control of a service provider; a non-transitory computer-readable medium portion that stores programming instructions that are configured to cause a processor of a service provider to generate and display a service provider user interface, wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to generate and display the service provider user interface comprise instructions to: receive a service provider selection of one of the over-the-top video content sources, access a database in which information for content items for a selected source is stored, present information for the content items from the selected source from the database to the service provider via a content management interface, apply one or more rules for receiving, from the service provider via the content management interface, selected content items from the selected source in a playlist to be presented via a channel, provide a playlist ordering menu via which the service provider may define an order in which the selected content items will be presented in the playlist, and save the playlist to a data storage facility for presentation to a subscriber via a content delivery interface; and additional programming instructions configured cause a processor to present a content management interface that is configured to enable the service provider to manage available content by: receiving a rule set comprising a frequency; periodically accessing the over-the-top video content sources according to the frequency to determine whether any video source has posted any new content since a prior time that the system accessed that video source; retrieving metadata for the identified new content, wherein the metadata comprises a title and a delivery address; and storing the metadata in the database in which information for content items is stored.