Patent ID: 9635395
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for providing video-on-demand content to a subscriber device, the method comprising: (a) receiving, at a web-based content management system, comprising one or more computers, from at least one of a plurality of content provider devices associated with respective content providers, via an Internet connection, at least the following digital content: (b) encoding, at the one or more computers of the web-based content management system, the first video-on-demand program content to an encoded video-on-demand content file in a format capable of display by a subscriber device; (c) generating, at the one or more computers of the web-based content management system, video-on-demand application-readable metadata for the encoded video-on-demand content file by converting at least a portion of the first content classifying metadata into a format readable by a video-on-demand application so that the application-readable metadata can be used with the encoded video-on-demand content file in order to specify the at least one hierarchically arranged location of the title in the hierarchically arranged electronic program guide so that the first video-on-demand program content is locatable by a subscriber using the one or more category terms and the one or more subcategory terms when using the video-on-demand application; (d) storing, on a first non-transitory computer-readable memory operatively connected to the one or more computers of the web-based content management system, the encoded video-on-demand content file; (e) updating, by the video-on-demand application, the hierarchically arranged electronic program guide to list the title of the first video-on-demand program content in the at least one hierarchically arranged location in the hierarchically arranged electronic program guide based at least in part on the one or more category terms and the one or more subcategory terms of the associated content classifying metadata, the updated hierarchically arranged electronic program guide being accessible by a subscriber using a respective subscriber device connected via a broadband connection allowing the subscriber to navigate and select titles of video-on-demand program content including the first video-on-demand program content from the updated hierarchically arranged electronic program guide; (f) receiving, via the broadband connection, a first selection by the subscriber of the title from the updated hierarchically arranged electronic program guide; and (g) transmitting, from the first non-transitory computer-readable memory to the respective subscriber device via the broadband connection, the encoded video-on-demand content file for playback on the subscriber device.