Media content ingestion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11412284-B2
Application number	US-201916372944-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2019
Priority date	Jun 29, 2015
Publication date	Aug 9, 2022
Grant date	Aug 9, 2022

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, a single ingestion package for media content comprising:
an audio/video media asset; and
metadata specified using a common metadata specification providing a common set of content access right terms for specifying content access rights for a plurality of different content delivery platforms, the metadata describing different access rights of the media asset for each of the plurality of different content delivery platforms;

at the pre-ingestion server, generating from the received single ingestion package at least two different content distribution packages, each of the content distribution packages comprising content delivery platform metadata describing respective platform-specific access rights formatted according to a delivery platform ingestion specification definition for the respective content delivery platform, the delivery platform ingestion specification definition defining a format of the content delivery platform metadata for the respective content delivery platform, the respective platform-specific access rights prepared from the content access rights of the metadata specified using the common set of content access terms of the common metadata specification; and
providing each of the generated content distribution packages to the respective content delivery platforms for ingestion.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the common 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 of the ingestion package 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:
checking the metadata of the ingestion package for conformance to the common metadata specification; and
generating an alert if the metadata of the ingestion package is determined to not conform to the common metadata specification.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating one or more of the content distribution packages further comprises:
encoding the media asset for distribution by the one or more content delivery platforms.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein encoding of the media asset is only done if the received metadata of the ingestion package conforms to the common metadata specification.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising blocking providing the generated content distribution packages to the respective of content delivery platforms if the metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

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

9. A server 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, at a pre-ingestion server, a single ingestion package for media content comprising:
an audio/video media asset; and
metadata specified using a common metadata specification providing a common set of content access right terms for specifying content access rights for a plurality of different content delivery platforms, the metadata describing different access rights of the media asset for each of the plurality of different content delivery platforms;

generate from the received single ingestion package at least two different content distribution packages, each of the content distribution packages comprising content delivery platform metadata describing respective platform-specific access rights formatted according to a delivery platform ingestion specification definition for the respective content delivery platform, the delivery platform ingestion specification definition defining a format of the content delivery platform metadata for the respective content delivery platform, the respective platform-specific access rights prepared from the content access rights of the metadata specified using the common set of content access terms of the common metadata specification; and
provide each of the generated content distribution packages to the respective content delivery platforms for ingestion.

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

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

12. The server device of claim 9 , wherein the executed instruction further configure the device to:
checking the metadata of the ingestion package for conformance to the common metadata specification; and
generate an alert if the metadata of the ingestion package is determined to not conform to the common metadata specification.

13. The server device of claim 9 , wherein generating one or more of the content distribution packages further comprises:
encoding the media asset for distribution by the one or more content delivery platforms.

14. The server device of claim 13 , wherein encoding of the media asset is only done if the received metadata of the ingestion package conforms to the common metadata specification.

15. The server device of claim 9 , wherein the executed instruction further configure the device to block providing the generated content distribution packages to the respective of content delivery platforms if the metadata does not conform to the common metadata specification.

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

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

• H04N21/2665 Primary

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

• H04L65/612

  for unicast · CPC title

• H04L65/60

  Network streaming of media packets · 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