Technical Field

The present invention relates to a system and method for managing metadata and broadcasting rights of contents such as series and movies wherein broadcasting is performed in multiple devices, countries and languages.

Background of the Invention

Today, with the rapid development of technology and Internet; series, movies and similar contents can reach many different countries and can be broadcasted in many different languages. In such cases, broadcasting rights of contents can be protected by contracts drawn up among content providers, content owners and broadcasting companies.

In order to manage video content data in different languages, devices and countries; companies broadcasting content over Internet enable management of data about contents by dividing the content repository, wherein data about contents are recorded, into different database or database schemas in the state of the art. In the event of common contents that will be used in a plurality of countries, it is required to reproduce content video, photo files and metadata information separately for each country on digital storage spaces. And this leads to cost of too much storage space and transaction repeat for companies broadcasting content and managing right of use.

Therefore, considering the studies and deficiencies in the state of the art, it is understood that there is need for a system which enables to manage all data related to digital contents and broadcasting rights thereof from a single data repository. The Australian patent document no. AU2016208427, an application in the state of the art, discloses a system for performing content management. The system in the said invention enables a user to access, select and view regular or irregular video contents on the interface of a content management system. In the said invention, users are enabled to obtain licence in order to access licensed contents by means of a support software in the content management system.

Summary of the Invention

An objective of the present invention is to realize a system and method for managing metadata and broadcasting rights of contents such as series and movies wherein broadcasting is performed in multiple devices, countries and languages.

An objective of the present invention is to realize a system and method for enabling TV broadcasting companies to broadcast their contents and customers to manage their subscriptions.

An objective of the present invention is to realize a system and method for providing content broadcasting with a structure that can perform multi-tenant, multi-region and multi-language broadcasting by means of different database schemas.

Detailed Description of the Invention

“A Content Management System and Method” realized to fulfil the objectives of the present invention is shown in the figures attached, in which:

Figure l is a schematic view of the inventive system.

Figure 2 is a flowchart of the inventive method. The components illustrated in the figure are individually numbered, where the numbers refer to the following:

1. System

2. Electronic device

3. Application

4. Database

5. Server

100. Method

The inventive system (1) for managing metadata and broadcasting rights of contents such as series and movies wherein broadcasting is performed in multiple devices, countries and languages comprises: at least one electronic device (2) which is configured to realize data exchange by using any remote communication protocol and to run at least one application on itself; at least one application (3) which is run on the electronic device (2), configured to view and manage at least content data and broadcasting rights; at least one database (4) which is configured to record all data about contents such that these are matched with their relationship with each other and a distinctive singular identity information; and at least one server (5) which is configured to establish communication with the electronic device (2) by using any remote communication protocol and to realize data exchange with the application (3) that is run on the electronic device (2) over this communication established, to manage the database (4), to carry out transactions related to contents that are selected by the user over the application (3) and to save all transactions carried out related to contents to the database (4).

The electronic device (2) included in the inventive system (1) is a device such as smartphone, tablet computer, desktop computer or portable computer configured to run at least one application (3) on itself. The said electronic device (2) has speakers providing audio output and an input unit in the form of keypad or touchscreen. The electronic device (2) is configured to establish connection with the server (5) by using any remote communication protocol included in the state of the art and to ensure that data exchange is realized between the application (3) and the server (5) over this connection established. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the electronic device (2) is configured to realize data exchange with the server (5) by using a data bus such as Internet.

The application (3) included in the inventive system (1) is run on the electronic device (2) and configured to ensure that at least video contents such as series, movies and broadcasting rights thereof are managed. The application (3) is configured to realize data exchange with the server (5) over the connection established between the electronic device (2) and the server (5) by using any remote communication protocol included in the state of the art. The said application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to view a certain number of digital contents, that are the most recently processed, under the category title of “recorded content” or “live content” and together with transaction status. The application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to view information of how many contents are in process, how many contents are ready for broadcasting and how many contents are broadcasted. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the application (3) is configured to enable users to view and manage data about content suppliers, contracts and contractual content licenses. The application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to view name and distinctive singular identity (ID) information related to suppliers of content provider and to manage the information related to suppliers by means of transactions such as updating, deleting and creating a record of new supplier. The said application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to view information such as licence name, start and end time, type of contract and license whereby they are subject to about licences that are identified for content providers and to manage licence data by means of transactions such as updating, deleting licence and creating a new licence record. The application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to view contract name, start and end time, contractual distinctive singular identity (ID) information related to contracts that are drawn up with content suppliers and information about the supplier correlated with the contract and to manage contract data by means of transactions such as updating, deleting contract and creating a new contract record. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable to create, save and edit contents with the characteristic of “optionally watchable content” that will be provided by a supplier and enable to watch optionally watchable contents by making a selection from recorded contents. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable to create, save and edit live broadcast channels and contents with the characteristic of “watch live” that will be provided by the supplier. The said application (3) is configured present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to define and manage configuration values to be associated with contents. The said application (3) is configured to present at least one interface adapted such that it will enable users to define, view and update configuration values to be associated with information such as poster, type, rating, target audience (smart sign that must be identified legally), content warning information, category, language, broadcasting regions, actors, file transfer protocol, broadcast protocol about contents. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the application (3) is an application with the characteristic of being public to different customers and multi-tenant (shared - common user).

The database (4) included in the inventive system (1) is in communication with the server (5) and configured to be managed by the server (5). The said database (4) is configured to record data about contents such that these are matched with their relationship with each other and a distinctive singular identity information. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the database (4) is configured to record each customer for whom service is given and content is provided such that s/he is associated with the countries and regions wherein customers provide service and the content has the right of broadcasting. The said database (4) is configured to record data about each content provider, the data about agreements of content broadcasting, the date range when the content will be broadcasted and the content license information about in which regions it will be broadcasted and the information about contents in separate tables such that they will be associated with each other. The database (4) is configured to record digital contents under category titles such as “optionally watchable content” or “live content” and such that they are associated with transactions status. The said database (4) is configured to record information such as how many contents are in process, how many contents are ready for broadcasting and how many contents are broadcasted. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the database (4) is configured to record data about content suppliers, contracts and contractual content licenses such that they are associated with their relationship with each other. The database (4) is configured to record the data such as name and the drawn up contracts related to suppliers of content provider such that they are associated with a distinctive singular identity (ID) information about suppliers. The database (4) is configured to record information such as licence name, start and end time, type of contract and license whereby they are subject to about licences related to licences that are identified for content providers such that such that they are associated with the distinctive singular identity information identified for suppliers. The database (4) is configured to record data such as contract name, start and end time and contractual distinctive singular identity (ID) information related to contracts that are drawn up with content suppliers such that they are associated with the information the supplier correlated with the contract. The database (4) is configured to record the configuration values associated with the contents. The said database (4) is configured to record the configuration values associated with information such as poster, type, rating, target audience (smart sign that must be identified legally), content warning information, category, language, broadcasting regions, actors, file transfer protocol, broadcast protocol. The server (5) included in the inventive system (1) is configured to establish communication with the electronic device (2) by using any remote communication protocol included in the state of the art and to realize data exchange with the application (3) that is run on the electronic device (2) over this communication established. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the server (5) is configured to establish communication with the electronic device (2) over a data network such as Internet. The server (5) is configured to manage the database (4) by means of transactions such as making a record of new data into the database (4), deleting the data recorded in the database (4), changing the data recorded in the database (4) and updating the data recorded in the database (4) and to access the data in the database (4). The server (5) is configured to receive command data such as creating, updating and deleting new data that are performed by the user by means of an interface presented by the application (3) over the connection established with the electronic device (2) and to transmit the related data to the application (3) upon updating them on the database (4).

The inventive method (100) for managing metadata and broadcasting rights of contents such as series and movies wherein broadcasting is performed in multiple devices, countries and languages comprises steps of creating new content over the application (3) and carrying out definition of supplier, contract or licence for the said content (101); opening a record on the database (4) by the status of “in process” for the created content (102); inputting all data related to the content and the content broadcast on the application (3) and adding licence (103); determining the start and end date of licence for the new content created by means of the application (3) (104);

- updating the content status on the database (4) as “ready for broadcasting” (105); - broadcasting the content together with the start date of licence determined (106); and removing the content before the expiration date of license and updating the content as “in process” on the database (4) (107); or removing the content at the expiration date of license determined (108); checking the current licences for the next period of the content that is removed because of the expiration date of license (109); if a post-dated licence record is accessed for the content that is removed because of the expiration date of license, updating the content status on the database (4) as “ready for broadcasting” (110); if a post-dated licence record is accessed for the content that is removed because of the expiration date of license, broadcasting the content again on the next start date of licence (111); if a post-dated licence record cannot be accessed for the content that is removed because of the expiration date of license, updating the content status on the database (4) as “in process” (112).

With the inventive system (1), it is ensured to manage all data related to digital contents such as series, movies wherein broadcasting is performed in multiple devices, countries and languages and broadcasting rights thereof from a single data repository.

Within these basic concepts; it is possible to develop various embodiments of the inventive “Content Management System (1) and Method (100); the invention cannot be limited to examples disclosed herein and it is essentially according to claims.