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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2001
Alan Ramaley, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Sodt, Seattle, WA (US);
Rahul Sonnad, Snohomish, WA (US);
Ian Blaine, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Olson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Alan Ramaley, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Sodt, Seattle, WA (US);
Rahul Sonnad, Snohomish, WA (US);
Ian Blaine, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Olson, Kirkland, WA (US);
thePlatform for Media, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method that integrates a plurality of media service systems offering different multimedia services such as media storage, syndication, delivery, and billing services. The system and method also provides automated file transcoding. In embodiment, a method of the present invention includes receiving a plurality of physical media files, organizing the plurality of physical media files so that different bit-rates and formats of a single source material are organized into a media database entity, receiving user specified delivery settings for the distribution of the physical media file, generating a release database entity storing the delivery settings of the physical media file, generating an address indicating the storage location of the release, and transmitting the address to a remote computing device.