Media content ingestion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10250930-B2
Application number	US-201514753545-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2015
Priority date	Jun 29, 2015
Publication date	Apr 2, 2019
Grant date	Apr 2, 2019

Abstract

A content ingestion system and method allows a single pitch of media content and associated metadata to be provided by a content provider and processed into appropriate packages for different content distribution services or delivery platforms.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for ingesting media content comprising:
receiving at a pre-ingestion server an ingestion package comprising a media asset and associated metadata describing the media content and different access rights information for the media asset over a plurality of different content delivery platforms, the access rights information specifying respective access rights to the media asset over the plurality of different content delivery platforms, the metadata and access rights defined in accordance with a common metadata specification, the common metadata specification providing a common set of content access right terms for specifying content access rights for each of the plurality of different content delivery platforms;
at the pre-ingestion server, generating from the received ingestion package at least two different content distribution packages by, for each of the at least two different content distribution packages:
encoding the media asset in the ingestion package according to an ingestion specification definition for the respective content delivery platform; and
preparing the access rights information according to the ingestion specification definition for the respective content delivery platform; and

providing each of the generated content distribution packages to the respective content delivery platform for ingestion into the content delivery platform.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata specification provides a single specification for describing media assets across all of the different content delivery platforms.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata specifies one or more of the plurality of different content distribution services the media asset is distributed by.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating an alert if the metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising blocking encoding of the media asset if the received metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising blocking providing the package to the plurality of content delivery platforms if the metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the content distribution package to the respective content delivery platform comprises storing the content distribution package in a content distribution network (CDN) for subsequent distribution by an associated delivery platform.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the content distribution package to the respective content delivery platform comprises providing the content distribution package to a content ingestion service of one of the plurality of distribution services.

9. A pre-ingestion device for ingesting media content comprising:
a processing unit for executing instructions; and
a memory unit for storing instructions, which when executed by the processing unit configure the device to:
receive an ingestion package comprising a media asset and associated metadata describing the media content and different access rights information for the media asset over a plurality of different content delivery platforms, the access rights information specifying respective access rights to the media asset over a plurality of different content delivery platforms, the metadata and access rights defined in accordance with a common metadata specification, the common metadata specification providing a common set of content access right terms for specifying content access rights for each of the plurality of different content delivery platforms;
generate from the received ingestion package at least two different content distribution packages by, each of the at least two different content distribution packages:
encoding the media asset in the ingestion package according to an ingestion specification definition for the respective content delivery platform; and
preparing the access rights information according to the ingestion specification definition for the respective content delivery platform;

and
provide each of the generated content distribution packages to the respective content delivery platform for ingestion into the content delivery platform.

10. The device of claim 9 , wherein the metadata specification provides a single specification for describing media assets across all of the different content delivery platforms.

11. The device of claim 9 , wherein the metadata specifies one or more of the plurality of different content distribution services the media asset is distributed by.

12. The device of claim 9 , wherein the executed instruction further configure the device to generate an alert if the metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

13. The device of claim 9 , wherein the executed instruction further configure the device to block encoding of the media asset if the received metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

14. The device of claim 9 , wherein the executed instruction further configure the device to block providing the package to the plurality of content delivery platforms if the metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

15. The device of claim 9 , wherein providing the content distribution package to the respective content delivery platform comprises storing the content distribution package in a content distribution network (CDN) for subsequent distribution by an associated delivery platform.

16. The device of claim 9 , wherein providing the content distribution package to the respective content delivery platform comprises providing the content distribution package to a content ingestion service of one of the plurality of distribution services.

Assignees

• Bce Inc

Inventors

• Snyder Chris
• Gordon Josh

Classifications

• H04N21/4627

  Rights management {associated to the content (security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08)} · CPC title

• H04L65/4084

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L65/60

  Network streaming of media packets · CPC title

• H04N21/2665 Primary

  Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite · CPC title

• H04N21/2541

  Rights Management (protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08) · CPC title