Patent ID: 8966371
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing digital media content, comprising: receiving from a media content provider a metadata file and a plurality of data files associated with a digital media content that the media content provider desires to make available for download by one or more end users; and using the metadata file to process the plurality of data files without human intervention to produce prior to download time a downloadable digital media content asset; wherein the metadata file specifies for each of at least a subset of the plurality of data files how that data file is to be used prior to download time to create prior to download time the downloadable digital media content asset; the metadata file is associated with the digital media content and not with any specific one of said end users; and wherein processing the plurality of data files includes combining together prior to download time at least a portion of each of said at least a subset of the plurality of data files, in a manner indicated by the metadata file, to produce the downloadable digital media content asset; and further comprising making the downloadable digital media content asset available for download by consumers; and wherein the plurality of data files includes a chaptering metadata file that identifies a plurality of chapters comprising the file downloadable digital media content asset and for each chapter a corresponding portion of the digital media content and one or both of an image and a video clip representative of said corresponding portion of the digital media content, and wherein said chaptering data is parsed and used to generate automatically and without human intervention a chapter menu data for the downloadable digital media content asset.