US Patent:
20030145333, Jul 31, 2003
Inventors:
Rune Hjelsvold - Plainsboro NJ, US
Remi Depommier - Plainsboro NJ, US
Yves Leaute - Schmitten, DE
Kangesh Gunaseelan - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
International Classification:
H04N007/16
H04N007/173
US Classification:
725/113000, 725/001000, 725/086000, 725/109000, 725/112000, 725/136000
Abstract:
A system for selling digital video information over a communications network such as the Internet basically includes a filtering server and a service administration system. The filtering server includes a commerce server, a streaming server and a world-wide web information server. The world-wide web information server provides customers with a list of available videos, the possibility to customize specific versions and a method for calculating the price for a specific version. The service administration system includes a management tool for the merchant to define price classes and payment schemes and a meta-data editing tool for the merchant to prepare the content for the filtering. The system will connect to external systems to have the payment information verified. If the payment transaction is accepted the system will pass the selected video through a sequence of service filters to generate the edition that the customer selected.