Arris Enterprises LLC

Matthew A Milford

David Alfred Romrell

Sean Michael Sheedy

Xavier P Denis

Yixiang Zeng

David A Romrell

A product rendering controller (PRC) manages the overall process of creating video-on-demand (VOD) assets or products from source assets that are obtained from a wide variety of different content sources (e.g., web-based sources) and which are in a wide variety of different native media formats. The source assets are converted to video transport streams such as an MPEG transport stream and transcoded as necessary to create the VOD products. The PRC determines the VOD products that need to be generated, pre-caches data that is to be incorporated into VOD products, and selects the pool of video product generators that is to be used to convert the source assets to VOD products.

VOD product rendering controller

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate real-time advertisement verification. Advertisement media may be tagged with one or more tag identifiers. One or more remote probes may retrieve tag identifier(s) from advertisement media and output tag information to a centralized verification system. The centralized verification system may compare tag information retrieved from remote probes to expected advertisement placement parameters. The centralized verification system may verify that appropriate advertisement media has been spliced into expected channels or streams. When a splicing error has been detected, the centralized verification system may initiate changes to correct the splicing error.

Real-time advertisement-insertion verification

A method provides for tracking client playback events when playing an asset specified in a manifest for streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) content. The method includes generating, with a manifest manipulator, a manifest that includes an asset URL inserted at a marker denoting a placement opportunity in a content manifest requested by a client. The manifest also includes callback URLs for tracking playback events to be returned by the client. The manifest manipulator sends the manifest to the client. At least one of the callback URLs is received by a tracking proxy associated with the manifest manipulator, indicating that the event has been performed by the client. In response, a tracking URL is obtained by the tracking proxy. The tracking URL is sent to at least one asset decision system participating in an asset decision process that resulted in providing the asset URL to the manifest manipulator.

Real-time ad tracking proxy

A method provides content decisions for a personalized channel that is to be deliverable to a prescribed set of client devices as a linear channel streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) video. In the method, a request is received for a content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at a specified time. The linear video stream is to be presented on the personalized channel. Responsive to the request, a network location is provided for accessing a specified content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at the specified time.

Controller for establishing personalized video channels

A system is provided for a rendering stream distributor controller for use with a plurality of content sources, a HTML code repository, a plurality of video rendering engines and a distribution network. The rendering stream distributor controller includes an outbound IP address inventory system, a video rendering engine and network elements inventory system and a rendering stream controller. The rendering stream controller is able to provide a stream instruction, based on one of a plurality of outbound IP addresses, one of a plurality of HTML content identification data, and one of a plurality of sets of HTML code so as to instruct one of the plurality of video rendering engines to output an MPEG transport stream.

Rendering stream controller

A method provides content decisions for a personalized channel that is to be deliverable to a prescribed set of client devices as a linear channel streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) video. In the method, a request is received for a content asset to be inserted in a linear video stream at a specified time. The linear video stream is to be presented on the personalized channel. Responsive to the request, a network location is provided for accessing a specified content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at the specified time.

A multichannel video programming distributor controller is provided for use with an adaptive bitrate stream provider, a HTML code repository and a plurality of conversion engines. The multichannel video programming distributor controller includes an outbound IP address inventory system, conversion engine and network elements inventory system, and an MVPD stream controller. The MVPD stream controller is operable to provide a stream instruction, based on one of a plurality of outbound IP addresses, one of a plurality of ABR identification data and HTML identification data so as to instruct one of the plurality of conversion engines to output a first MPEG transport stream.

Multichannel video programming distributor stream controller

A method is provided for coordinating preparation of video-on-demand (VOD) products that are to be delivered as adaptive-bit-rate (ABR) video streams. In the method, actual start and actual stop times are received from a video product generator for each of a plurality of VOD products processed by the video product generator. The video product generator is configured to create VOD products in video transport streams from source assets. Responsive to receipt of the start and stop times, a transcoder is instructed to insert into a video transport stream for each of the VOD products encoder boundary points and IDR frames at specified times in each of the VOD products. The specified times include offset start and offset stop times of each of the VOD products.

Process controller for creation of ABR VOD product manifests

A method provides content decisions for a personalized channel that is to be deliverable to a prescribed set of client devices as a linear channel streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) video. In the method, a request is received for a resolution to a decision point in an ABR manifest of a linear video stream for a content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at a specified time. The linear video stream is to be presented on the personalized channel. Responsive to the request, a network location is provided for accessing a specified content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at the specified time.

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Matthew A Milford