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

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method of streaming selected media content to a client device of a user, the method comprising:
at a streaming media server:
receiving encoded media content via an input media stream from a media encoder;
parsing the encoded content of the input media stream into time-stamped individual content elements, or representations thereof, stored within a content element file;
receiving an alert request specifying a potential content element;
monitoring 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;
generating and transmitting to the client device an alert corresponding to the selected given content element, the alert including a prompt enabling the client device to connect to the input media stream via the streaming media server;
transcoding the input media stream in a streaming format compatible with content delivery, the transcoded media stream being the output media stream; and

at a multimedia player coupled with the streaming media server, the multimedia player executing on the client device:
loading the output media stream from a location parsed from the content element file;
cueing playback of the output media stream to a playback time based on the time-stamp assigned to the selected given content element; and
starting playback of the output media stream, thereby streaming the selected media content element to the client device.