VIRTUAL VIDEO CHANNELS

摘要

Embodiments are configured to populate one or more virtual channels with accessible video content from disparate sources. Users are oftentimes overwhelmed with an abundance of available video content. Embodiments of the present invention may be utilized to generate an index of all video content to which a user has access from various video content providing systems and cross-match the index of video content with tagged video metadata. The cross-matched video content may be processed through various filters and mapped to one or more classifications. One or more virtual channels may be generated according to the one or more classifications and populated with the cross-matched video content. The virtual channels are customized to the user based on the availability of the content to the user and on user preference data.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
generating an index of user accessible video content; applying a tunable algorithm to the video content to categorize the content according to classifications; generating one or more virtual channels according to one or more classifications; determining if a paid streaming content limit has been reached; and filtering the one or more generated virtual channels to remove paid streaming content if the limit has been reached.