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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2020
Applicant:
Tivo Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christopher Colby, Piedmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
TIVO CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 5/782 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 9/82 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0264 (2013.01); H04N 5/782 (2013.01); H04N 7/165 (2013.01); H04N 21/26291 (2013.01); H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/814 (2013.01); H04N 21/8146 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 9/8205 (2013.01);
Abstract
Multiple scheduling producers such as content management systems, advertisement systems, and emergency broadcast systems can independently send scheduling events to scheduling consumers such as streaming servers, guide generators, and playlogs. The scheduling consumers maintain state machines with persistent storage to process scheduling events from scheduling producers and output media channel playlists, channel guides, and/or content. Scheduling producers can contribute independently to define a channel playout while information at scheduling consumers remains synchronized.