Patent ID: 9710473
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. Method for managing personalized playlists of the type comprising a uniform resource identifier template and a list of segment identifiers, wherein the method comprises: receiving by a first splicer, from a content delivery network, a get-list request transmitted by a player and parameterized with an identifier of the first content, and a group identifier defining a group comprising at least one user and at least one player; a first phase of managing the get-list request by the first splicer, wherein managing includes the following acts performed by a computation machine of the first splicer: a) getting an initial playlist comprising: a first uniform resource identifier template pointing towards a first server and pre-parameterized with the identifier of the first content; and a first list of segment identifiers, each segment identifier of the first list enabling, when used as a parameter of the first template, to generate a uniform resource identifier pointing towards a segment of the first content; b) building a final playlist comprising: a second uniform resource identifier template pointing towards a second splicer, coinciding or not coinciding with the first splicer, and pre-parameterized with the identifier of the first content and the group identifier; and a second list of virtual segment identifiers, each virtual segment identifier enabling, when used as a parameter of the second template, to generate a uniform resource identifier pointing towards one of said virtual segments, each virtual segment being associated either with a segment of the first content or with an alternative segment of a set of alternative segments included in at least one alternative content; c) transmitting the final playlist to the player.