Patent ID: 9210470
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a network device, from a first user of a media delivery service via a first client device, a first media cut profile associated with first media stored in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein the first user is a member of a user group of the media delivery service and belongs to a first media genre subgroup of the user group and a second media genre subgroup of the user group, and wherein the first media cut profile includes: storing the first media cut profile, in association with the first media, in the CDN to be available to each member of the user group via the media delivery service; publishing, via the media delivery service and based on the identifier associated with the first media genre subgroup, the first media cut profile only to a plurality of user devices associated with members of the user group that belong to the first media genre subgroup; preventing access, via the media delivery service, to the first media stored in the CDN, by requesting client devices associated with members of the user group that belong to an age subgroup of users; processing, by the network device, the first media to cut the at least one portion of the first media between the at least one first censoring start time and first censoring stop time to produce multiple uncut blocks of the first media; concatenating, by the network device, the multiple uncut blocks of the first media to produce first censored media; and streaming, by the network device in the CDN, the first censored media to a first requesting client device.