Individual internet video link channel

摘要

A system and method for establishing and provisioning a new Internet Video Link (IVL) category under user control and utilizing user requests for locating and including preferred video content. The new IVL category will include video content located on a local device as well as video content retrieved from any interne URL provided by a user. The IVL category is built in the background and contains a category as a directory of video content and channels as sub-directories containing subsets of the video content described by the category. The user may also input keywords for use in searching for preferred video content so as to establish a mix of video content concatenated into a single mix channel for use in viewing only those video content items associated with the keywords supplied by the user. Alternatively, the mix channel may be provisioned by locating and mixing together video content that has similar metadata tags associated with the user preferred video content. The user may also receive recommendations for IVL content from other users that is similar to the content preferred by the user. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.

主权项

1. A method for establishing an Internet Video Link (IVL) service category comprising:
communicating a user request from a user device over an Internet connection to an IVL service manager to create a new service category at a user site; entering a service category name or User Resource Locator (URL) via an input device associated with a video display device controlled by the user at the user site; at the IVL service manager, establishing the new service category as a background process wherein the new service category is created using the input service category name or URL; wherein the creation and maintenance of the IVL service category for each user is provided by an IVL service provider; wherein said IVL service provider comprises at least a Bravia IVL service; the IVL service manager provisioning the new service category with video content from user local and internet sources of video content by instructing a content aggregator to aggregate the video content; and refreshing the IVL service automatically to include access to the new IVL service category on the user video display device.