Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for video-on-demand playlist
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Application No.: US15481626Application Date: 2017-04-07
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Publication No.: US09888212B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Steven Riedl , John Callahan , Bryan Santangelo , Craig Mahonchak
- Applicant: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
- Applicant Address: US MO St. Louis
- Assignee: TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC
- Current Assignee: TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MO St. Louis
- Agency: Otterstedt, Ellenbogen & Kammer, LLP
- Main IPC: H04N7/10
- IPC: H04N7/10 ; H04N7/173 ; H04N7/16 ; H04N21/4722 ; H04N21/84 ; H04N21/262 ; H04N21/472 ; H04N21/81

Abstract:
A method of providing programming content from a video server to a client coupled to the video server by a video content network includes the steps of sending, to the client, a playlist describing an interrelationship between at least one program segment and at least one related segment; sending, from the video server to the client over the video content network, video content comprising the at least one program segment and the at least one related segment; and modifying the playlist via communication to the client. The steps of sending the playlist, sending the content, and modifying the playlist are all accomplished within a single video-on-demand session per user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170280101A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-ON-DEMAND PLAYLIST Public/Granted day:2017-09-28
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