Patent ID: 11871054
Assignee: IMAGINE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of providing playout of fragmented video content for video origination, the method comprising:
originating, by a processor, augmented content for at least one viewer based on first metadata associated with at least one of a playlist or a source content, the playlist indicating a playout sequence and one or more program scheduling requirements;
converting, by the processor via a transcoder, the source content into a plurality of video fragments, each fragment being a separately managed unit of content;
processing, by the processor via the transcoder, one or more of the plurality of video fragments based on the playlist to generate processed video fragments for the at least one viewer, at least one of the plurality of the processed video fragments comprising the augmented content, respective second metadata for each processed video fragment indicating at least one viewer associated with that respective processed video fragment;
generating, by the processor a fragmented-video manifest based on the processed video fragments for the at least one viewer, the fragmented-video manifest containing metadata associated with the at least one viewer, timing data and location data for the processed video fragments to generate a video stream suitable for origination, the second metadata associated with the at least one viewer indicating the at least one viewer, the location data indicating a storage location of the processed video fragments, the timing data indicating a sequence of the processed video fragments; and
outputting, by the processor, the fragmented-video manifest for origination of the video stream for the at least one viewer using the processed video fragments associated via metadata with the at least one viewer.