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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2022
Applicant:
Barco NV, Kortrijk, BE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BARCO NV, Kortrijk, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/222 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/238 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26241 (2013.01); H04N 21/222 (2013.01); H04N 21/231 (2013.01); H04N 21/23805 (2013.01); H04N 21/25833 (2013.01); H04N 21/26606 (2013.01); H04N 21/41415 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for distributing digital cinema content (DCC) to cinemas integrates with content creators, distributors and cinemas. A backbone that includes a scheduling system operates to automatically transfer DCC to individual cinema IT systems. The scheduler ensures availability of DCC at a cinema IT system in advance of or at a show time. The system may automatically generate key delivery messages. The cinema IT systems may comprise cinema servers that include media players dedicated to specific screens. The cinema servers may be operated as federated server groups. DCC may be stored on any of the cinema servers and played back on any screens in a cinema.