Patent ID: 8958684
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A screening management system comprising: a content accumulation unit for accumulating a plurality of video contents to be screened; a playlist management unit for managing a playlist defining an order of screening the video contents accumulated in the content accumulation unit and managing the video contents to be screened in a specific place at a pre-set screening time in the order defined by the playlist; and a schedule management unit for managing the playlist according to the screening time at which contents of the playlist are to be screened, wherein the playlist is a list of a plurality of frames, wherein at least some of the frames include packs, each pack identifying one or more video contents stored in the content accumulation unit, and at least some of the frames identify particular video content for screening, wherein the playlist includes a frame-pack correspondence table for each screening time, the frame-pack correspondence table indicating a correspondence between a respective frame and the pack included in said respective frame, wherein the video content to be screened, as identified by the pack corresponding to said respective frame, is changeable for each screening time by changing the pack in the frame-pack correspondence table having correspondence with said respective frame, thereby changing the content identified by that pack, wherein at least some of the video content is stored in the content accumulation unit, wherein the frames are arranged in the order in which the particular video content identified by said packs are screened in the specific place, wherein the video content identified by a pack is read from the content accumulation unit at the screening time at which said video content is to be screened; and wherein when there is no pack or video content in the frame-pack correspondence table having correspondence with a frame, a screening schedule is created with a corresponding part of the frame or the video content excluded.