CPC Class H04N

A virtual cypher system for providing online real-time performances. The virtual cypher system creates a virtual cypher for providing sequential online real-time performances based on a filtering scheme using customizable user selected features. The virtual cypher system generates a user profile page for each new user, determines whether a virtual cypher exists for a category and performance selection chosen by a user, creates a virtual cypher in conformance with the customizable user selected features when the system determines that a virtual cypher does not already exist for the category and performance selection, and adds the user to a waitlist queue. Further, the virtual cypher system initiates, in sequential order, a content-specific real-time performance corresponding to the performance selection, for each user in the waitlist queue, and transmits received real-time streaming data corresponding to the performance by each user to viewers of the virtual cypher.

A transcoding method used in a computer network comprises: receiving, by a task manager in the computer network, a transcoding task, where the transcoding task has task information; generating task dispatch information according to the task information; and separately acquiring, according to the task dispatch information, source data of media segments corresponding to a media file, parallelly transcoding the source data into data in a target format by using multiple transcoders, and storing the data into a storage server in the computer network, where the transcoder includes a processor of the storage server. Distributed transcoding is completed by using an idle CPU of a storage server, so that not only costs of hardware are reduced and an existing resource is fully used, but also transmission and copying of data are greatly accelerated, thereby improving transcoding efficiency.

A method, corresponding system, and corresponding apparatus distribute user generated content from a computing device to one or more display devices. The computer-implemented method may begin by communicatively coupling the computing device, a server, and the one or more display devices. The computing device executes a user interface. The user interface may include a field for accepting user generated content. The server may store the user generated content, in a manner enabling assembling of the user generated content. The server communicates the assembled user generated content to selected display devices. The display devices display the assembled user generated content in a sequence defined by a playlist.

A system for delivery of owned High Definition audio-visual content to a location selected by a user is provided. The system includes a central facility for the storage of the content, and two or more local networks operatively connected to the central facility for receipt of the content from the central facility. One local network has a dedicated high bandwidth data line to the location of the user, and the dedicated data line transmits of the content as high definition content, and the transmission is such that it allows for immediate play.