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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Arris Group Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph R Matarese, Oakland, CA (US);
Jay B Schiller, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23424 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/44016 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stream server system includes logic to provide an output stream to a machine data network; logic to specify to a stream splicer, without modifying the output stream, a playlist file as a file to provide ad content, the playlist file including identifications of multiple digital content files each comprising a separate advertisement; and logic to stream the multiple content files individually to a stream splicer as a Single Program Transport Stream and to identify the content from the multiple content files to the stream splicer as a single content segment.