Patent ID: 11930065
Assignee: OPENEXCHANGE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer system for streaming selected media content to a client device of a user, the system comprising:
a streaming media server configured to:
receive encoded media content via an input media stream from a media encoder;
parse the encoded content of the input media stream into time-stamped individual content elements, or representations thereof, stored within a content element file;
receive an alert request specifying a potential content element;
monitor the content element file for an instance of the potential content element by determining that the given content element substantially matches the potential content element;
generate and transmit to the client device an alert corresponding to the selected given content element;
transcode the input media stream in a streaming format compatible with content delivery, the transcoded media stream being the output media stream; and

a multimedia player coupled to the streaming media server, the multimedia player executing on the client device and configured to:
load the output media stream from a location parsed from the content element file;
cue playback of the output media stream to a playback time based on the time-stamp assigned to the selected given content element of the stored individual content elements; and
start playback of the output media stream, thereby streaming the selected given content element to the client device.