Patent ID: 9185445
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a server, a designation indicating a prioritized audio stream and indicating multimedia content, wherein the prioritized audio stream is to be transmitted with a broadcast of the multimedia content and wherein the designation is received prior to the broadcast; retrieving the multimedia content from a first content source, wherein the multimedia content includes a video stream and a native audio stream; retrieving the prioritized audio stream from a second content source that is different than the first content source after transmitting an authorization token to the second content source; synchronizing, at the server, the multimedia content and the prioritized audio stream by introducing a delay in the prioritized audio stream; adding, at the server, the prioritized audio stream to the multimedia content to form a composite content stream by interleaving first packets of the multimedia content with second packets of the prioritized audio stream, wherein the composite content stream includes a first content packet including first data corresponding to the video stream and the native audio stream, and wherein the composite content stream includes a second content packet including second data corresponding to the prioritized audio stream; and initiating, from the server, a transmission of the composite content stream to a media playback device, wherein the composite content stream includes the video stream, the native audio stream, and the prioritized audio stream, and wherein the first content source and the second content source are each external to the server.