Granted Patent B2

US 12,316,897 · App. 17/754,784 · Granted May 27, 2025

Inventor: Ashutosh Agrawal (Mumbai, IN)

Assignee: STAR INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

H04N21/2668H04N21/23424H04N21/2393H04N21/25866H04N21/812H04N21/8586

Abstract

Claims (48)

1. A method of real-time delivery of a target content in a streaming content, the method comprising:

receiving, at a Content Management Server, a request for streaming content from at least one user device, wherein the request comprises user segment information associated with the at least one user device;

selecting, by a Content Handling Server, at least one cohort from a plurality of cohorts based on the user segment information, wherein cohorts in the plurality of cohorts are associated with a plurality of users;

dynamically fetching, by the Content Handling Server, at least one target content for the at least one user device from a Target Content Server based on the at least one cohort that is selected;

creating, by the Content Handling Server, a customized virtual manifest for the at least one user device by inserting the at least one target content in the requested streaming content in real-time;

sending, by the Content Handling Server, the customized virtual manifest to the at least one user device based on the user segment information; and

delivering, by a Content Streaming Server, the at least one target content in the requested streaming content to the at least one user device based on the customized virtual manifest.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the streaming content corresponds to one of audio content, video content, audio-visual content, and user-interactive content.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the streaming content is one of live streaming content and playback content.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the target content corresponds to one of audio target content, video target content, or audio-visual target content.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprises receiving, at the Content Management Server, the user segment information from at least one of a User Management Server, and a Concurrency Service Unit.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the request for streaming content is received from the at least one user device at the Content Management server via a media player of the at least one user device via a wired and/or wireless mode.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one target content in the requested streaming content is displayed via a media player of the at least one user device.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the user segment information comprises demographic information, user profile information, user live location, at least one user interest, at least one user like/preference and at least one user dislike, user interaction pattern with a plurality of target contents in the past, network access by the user on the at least one user device, information associated with the at least one user device.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein selecting the at least one cohort from the plurality of cohorts comprises:

identifying, by the Content Handling Server, the at least one cohort associated with the at least one user device based on the analysis and mapping of the user segment information of the at least one user device with user segment information associated with one or more other user devices available in the at least one cohort;

determining, by the Content Handling Server, the at least one target content to be served to the identified at least one cohort based on the mapping of the one or more first parameters associated with the identified at least one cohort with one or more second parameters associated with at least one of a plurality of target content campaigns.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein dynamically fetching, by the Content Handling Server, the at least one target content from the Target Content Server is further based on live user concurrency data, target content impressions data, clicks per target content data, wherein the live user concurrency data is received from a Concurrency Service Unit and the target content impressions data and clicks per target content data are received from a Pulse Tracker.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprises updating, by the Content Handling Server, the customized virtual manifest in a predefined interval of time based on one or more parameters, wherein the one or more parameters comprises change in the user segment information, change in the parameters associated with the fetching of the at least one target content, availability of the at least one new target content campaign, expiry of the existing target content campaign.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprises receiving, at the Content Handling Server, a response of the at least one user device on the at least one target content, wherein the at least one target content is delivered based on the customized virtual manifest.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12 , comprises dynamically updating, by the Content Handling Server, the customized virtual manifest with at least one new target content in an event a negative response or no response is received from the at least one user device.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one target content is dynamically fetched in a pre-encoded format that is used for the encoding of the requested streaming content for the creation of the customized virtual manifest and for the delivery of the at least one target content in the requested streaming content.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises:

receiving, at the Content Management Server, a request for streaming content from at least one new user device, wherein the request comprises new user segment information associated with the at least one new user device; and

comparing, by the Content Handling Server, the new user segment information with the user segment information received from the at least one user device.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15 , further comprises:

sending, by the Content Handling Server, the customized virtual manifest, stored in Content Streaming Server cache, to the at least one new user device in an event the new user segment information matches with the user segment information received from the at least one user device;

delivering, by the Content Streaming Server, the at least one target content in the requested streaming content to the at least one new user device based on the customized virtual manifest.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15 , further comprises:

creating, by the Content Handling Server, a new customized virtual manifest in an event the new user segment information does not match with the user segment information received from the at least one user device, wherein the new customized virtual manifest is created based on the new user segment information;

sending, by the Content Handling Server, the new customized virtual manifest to the at least one new user device based on the new user segment information; and

delivering, by the Content Streaming Server, the at least one target content in the requested streaming content to the at least one new user device based on the new customized virtual manifest.

18. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein insertion of the at least one target content in the requested streaming content for the creation of the customized virtual manifest is performed by inserting one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) associated with the at least one target content with one or more URLs associated with the requested streaming content.

19. A system for real-time delivery of a target content in a streaming content, the system comprising:

a Content Management Server, wherein the Content Management Server is configured to receive a request for streaming content from at least one user device, wherein the request comprises user segment information associated with the at least one user device;

a Content Handling Server, wherein the Content Handling Server is connected with the Content Management Server, wherein the Content Handling Server is configured to:

select at least one cohort from a plurality of cohorts based on the user segment information, wherein cohorts in the plurality of cohorts are associated with a plurality of users;

dynamically fetch at least one target content for the at least one user device from a Target Content Server based on the at least one cohort that is selected;

create a customized virtual manifest for the at least one user device by inserting the at least one target content in the requested streaming content in real-time;

send the customized virtual manifest to the at least one user device based on the user segment information; and

a Content Streaming Server, wherein the Content Streaming Server is connected with the Content Management Server and the Content Handling Server, wherein the Content Streaming Server is configured to deliver the at least one target content in the requested streaming content to the at least one user device based on the customized virtual manifest.

20. A non-transient computer-readable medium comprising instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of:

receiving a request for streaming content from at least one user device, wherein the request comprises user segment information associated with the at least one user device;

selecting at least one cohort from a plurality of cohorts based on the user segment information, wherein cohorts in the plurality of cohorts are associated with a plurality of users;

dynamically fetching at least one target content for the at least one user device from a Target Content Server based on the at least one cohort;

creating a customized virtual manifest for the at least one user device by inserting the at least one target content in the requested streaming content in real-time;

sending the customized virtual manifest to the at least one user device based on the user segment information; and

delivering the at least one target content in the requested streaming content to the at least one user device based on the customized virtual manifest.

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