Method and Apparatus for Customized Provisioning of On-Line Application Channels

摘要

A method for a computer system includes receiving an identifier associated with a client streaming player, determining one or more attributes associated with the identifier from a data structure in response to the identifier, determining available channels from a plurality of channels that are to be made available to the client streaming player in response to the identifier, wherein available channels comprises a first channel, but not the second channel, determining a first graphical identifier associated with the first channel, providing the first graphical identifier to the client streaming player, receiving a user selection of the first graphical identifier indicating a user request to associate the first channel with the computer system, and providing an indicator of a server network address associated with the first channel to the client streaming player.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving at a server an identifier for a streaming player configured to receive on-demand services for display on an attached video display; determining streaming player attributes based upon the identifier, wherein the streaming player attributes characterize the physical characteristics of the streaming player; determining demographic data based upon the identifier, wherein the demographic data is associated with a user of the streaming player; selecting available content based upon the streaming player attributes and the demographic data; and supplying indicia of the available content to the streaming player.