Patent ID: 8301731
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A streaming video search engine for allowing prospective viewers to locate at least one streaming video that is currently of interest from among several streaming videos, each streaming video being of a live event that is being delivered from a real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system into a computer network as the live event is changing, comprising: a network interface including computer hardware configured to receive source alerts from a real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system, each source alert indicating that a real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system will shortly begin or has just begun to deliver a streaming video of a live event that is currently of interest as it is being captured by the streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system, each source alert including descriptive information originating from the real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system that is descriptive of the streaming video, along with source information identifying a network source from where the streaming video may be obtained in real time; a memory system including computer hardware configured to controllably store the descriptive information and the source information; a processing system including computer hardware configured to cause the memory system to store the description information and the source information in a manner that associates the descriptive information from each real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system with the source information for the streaming video from that real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert system; a searching system including computer hardware configured to locate source information about at least one of the streaming videos that is of interest to each prospective viewer based on the descriptive information that is stored in the memory system and search criteria supplied by each prospective viewer that is applied to the descriptive information; and a viewer interface including computer hardware configured to communicate to each prospective viewer the source information located by the searching system.