US 11,818,410 B2
Creation of channel to support legacy video-on-demand systems
Donald Jude Loheide, Mableton, GA (US); Steven Ernest Riedl, Atlanta, GA (US); Mark Cooper Pope, V, Atlanta, GA (US); and Nishith Kumar Sinha, Mableton, GA (US)
Assigned to TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/872,730.
Application 17/872,730 is a continuation of application No. 17/077,312, filed on Oct. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,418,825.
Application 17/077,312 is a continuation of application No. 16/701,378, filed on Dec. 3, 2019, granted, now 10,887,637, issued on Jan. 5, 2021.
Application 16/701,378 is a continuation of application No. 15/395,296, filed on Dec. 30, 2016, granted, now 10,567,821, issued on Feb. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368970 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/262 (2013.01) [H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/2358 (2013.01); H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a memory for storing instructions; and
a processor configured to execute the instructions, and based on the executed instructions, the processor is further configured to:
receive a playout schedule that corresponds to a live video feed of a first channel,
wherein a plurality of segments of the live video feed is stored in the memory based on a version specified in the playout schedule;
remove a lower third graphical content overlay from the live video feed of the first channel,
wherein of the removal of the lower third graphical content overlay from the live video feed indicates a sanitization of the live video feed of the first channel;
generate a second channel comprising video on demand content assets based on the live video feed of the first channel, one or more scheduling rules received in the playout schedule that corresponds to the live video feed, and the version of the plurality of segments of the live video feed; and
transmit an encoded second channel to a plurality of multichannel video program distributors (MVPDs) based on the playout schedule.