Patent ID: 9654809
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of providing live television or video-on-demand content available for distribution to a plurality of content viewers' devices, the content viewers' devices having a plurality of disparate content viewing applications thereon, in a system comprising: a content provider computer operated by a content provider; and a content server accessible by the content provider computer over a data communications network and accessible by the content viewers' devices over one of the data communication network and a mobile telecommunications network, the content server having accessible memory, the method comprising the steps of: storing content on the content provider computer; the content provider computer accessing a web page hosted by the content server, the web page having a plurality of content encoders embedded therein; the content provider computer selecting the content for distribution and thereafter the content provider computer encoding the content into a plurality of streaming formats using the plurality of content encoders and the content provider computer uploading the content in the plurality of streaming formats to the content server; storing the content in the plurality of streaming formats on the content server's accessible memory; and updating at least one of a web page and a WAP page accessible by the content viewers' devices with a link to access the uploaded content.