Patent ID: 11962821
Assignee: TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising, based on a lack of availability of the first pre-encoded media asset for the media distribution:
retrieving, by the one or more processors, media content assets from a media content master storage system based on a programming schedule of a channel from a network scheduler;
retrieving, by the one or more processors, at least one of duration of the media content assets, duration and location of non-programming content break, credits, or overlay opportunities corresponding to the media content assets from a content metadata storage system;
encoding and packaging, by the one or more processors, the retrieved media content assets,
wherein the encoding and the packaging comprises:
marking, by the one or more processors, a location of the non-programming content break;
conditioning, by the one or more processors, media assets such that the location of the non-programming content break is adjacent to boundaries of the plurality of media segments; and
inserting, by the one or more processors, an indicator to mark the credits and an overlay graphic location in the media content assets based on content metadata, in case of non-inclusion of the indicator in the first pre-encoded media asset at packaging time.