Patent ID: 8065709

Claim:
A method for providing multi-viewpoint media content services, comprising: receiving, at a centralized server, live feeds of content from a first end user device and a second end user device that are observing an event from different viewpoints; classifying, by the centralized server, each of the live feeds of content received from the first and second end user devices according to viewpoint identifiers of the live feeds of content, device identifiers of the first and second end user devices, and content identifiers, each of the content identifiers specifying a defined portion of the event; providing the first and second end user devices with access to user-selectable viewpoints of the live feeds of content via the viewpoint identifiers, the device identifiers, and the content identifiers, the user-selectable viewpoints including the first and second end user devices' own content provided via the live feeds of content, and the live feeds of content associated with the user-selectable viewpoints are modifiable for creating customized content; and modifying content of user-selected viewpoints from the live feeds of content by combining the content of the user-selected viewpoints to follow a time sequence corresponding with a timeline of the event, the combining resulting in the customized content.