Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Media content discovery in an integrated media service that distributes media content by way of a plurality of different media distribution models
- Patent Title (中): 在通过多种不同的媒体分发模型分发媒体内容的综合媒体服务中的媒体内容发现
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Application No.: US14043589Application Date: 2013-10-01
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Publication No.: US09043837B2Publication Date: 2015-05-26
- Inventor: Brian F. Roberts , Imran Arif Maskatia , Paul Bradley Bowers , Jeffrey L. Harris
- Applicant: Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC
- Applicant Address: US NJ Basking Ridge
- Assignee: Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC
- Current Assignee: Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Basking Ridge
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F13/00 ; H04N5/445 ; G06F3/0481 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F3/0482 ; H04N21/4722 ; H04N21/472 ; H04N21/218 ; H04N21/482 ; H04N21/27 ; G06Q30/02 ; G06Q30/06

Abstract:
An exemplary method includes a media service provider system 1) providing an end user of an integrated media service with access to a media program by way of a plurality of different media distribution models, 2) maintaining a catalog that includes comprehensive information about the media program, the comprehensive information being an aggregate of non-redundant information about the media program obtained from a plurality of independent source catalogs corresponding to the plurality of different media distribution models, and 3) providing, based on the comprehensive information included in the catalog, a media service user interface that supports discovery of the comprehensive information about the media program regardless of a user interface context from which a user request for information about the media program is received. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
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