Abstract: There is disclosed a system for providing streaming services, comprising: a plurality of capture devices, each for capturing data and providing a captured data stream; and a server, for receiving the plurality of captured data streams; wherein each capture device is configured to generate metadata for the captured data, and transmit said metadata to the server.

Abstract: In one embodiment, there is a content delivery system comprising: a communication network; a media component configured to transmit media content and associated metadata to user devices; a store holding permission vouchers for users of the system; an auxiliary content management component configured to: receive a request for auxiliary content insertion information from a user device, the request comprising an identifier of a user of the user device and an identifier of desired media content; access said store to determine permission for consumption of the desired media content in a resource constrained playout mode at the device based on at least one permission voucher for the user; generate auxiliary content insertion information based on the identifier of the user, the identifier of the desired media content and the at least one permission voucher; and transmit the generated auxiliary content insertion information to the user device.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for detecting user engagement with auxiliary content consumed by a user at a viewing device, the method comprising, at the viewing device generating requests for auxiliary content associated with media content selected by the user to be consumed; receiving auxiliary content from an auxiliary content store and playing out the auxiliary content to the user; displaying at least one user engagement element associated with the auxiliary content, the user engagement element defining an expected user activity; generating user engagement data based on the engagement of a user with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity, and formulating a message to be transmitted to an auxiliary content controller, the messaging including a user identifier and the user engagement data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of providing a recommendation to a user of a user device, comprising: receiving a prediction of a context of the user; in dependence on the predicted context identifying context data for the prediction; providing one or more recommendations to the user in dependence on the predicted context data.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for detecting user engagement with auxiliary content consumed by a user at a viewing device, the method comprising, at the viewing device generating requests for auxiliary content associated with media content selected by the user to be consumed; receiving auxiliary content from an auxiliary content store and playing out the auxiliary content to the user; displaying at least one user engagement element associated with the auxiliary content, the user engagement element defining an expected user activity; generating user engagement data based on the engagement of a user with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity, and formulating a message to be transmitted to an auxiliary content controller, the messaging including a user identifier and the user engagement data.

Abstract: There is disclosed a system for providing streaming services, the system comprising: a plurality of users each for generating a stream of an event on a connection of a public network; and a server configured to: receive a plurality of the generated streams on connections of the public network; determine content for at least one output stream in dependence on one or more of: the content received on the input streams, the content requested by a viewer, and the user profiles of the contributors; and output the at least one output stream on a connection of a public network, at least one user for receiving the at least one output stream on a connection of the public network.

Abstract: There is provided a technique in which a device for capturing an event, and for generating a first stream and a second stream representing the event, one of the first and second streams being a lower quality version of the other, and the streams being generated simultaneously.

Abstract: There is disclosed a server for providing content, the server being configured to: receive a request defining one or more characteristics of content; access content from a plurality of content sources; and determine content responsive to the request in dependence on the accessed content.

Abstract: There is described a system for providing streaming services, comprising: a plurality of capture devices each for generating a stream of an event, each stream being associated with a timing reference; and a server for analysing the plurality of captured streams in order to align the received plurality of received captured streams according.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for providing streaming services, comprising: a plurality of capture devices, each for generating a captured stream of content; a server, for receiving the plurality of captured streams, and for outputting at least one output stream; and an editing device for outputting a control signal to the server, wherein the server processes captured streams to provide one or more modified output stream in dependence on the control signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of establishing access to content based on a future condition comprising providing an identifier at a user device; accessing a catalogue of available content based on the identifier; selecting at least one content identifier from the catalogue; and selectively enabling content associated with the content identifier in dependence on a future condition. Reserving multimedia content such as video for a journey or flight and during the flight or journey the selected content is streamed to the user's mobile device.

Abstract: A content delivery system comprising: a communication network; a mapping component storing media content aspect variant data enabling access to media content in a plurality of aspect variants; a content delivery component connected to the network and configured to access and deliver media content aspect variant data stored in the mapping component to devices connected to the network; an action request or component which is configured to receive a request from a user of a media consumption device that an aspect variant of media content is to be delivered to at least one further media consumption device, and cause the content delivery component to deliver media content aspect variant data associated with said aspect variant to the at least one further media consumption device to enable said aspect variant to be consumed at the at least one further media consumption device.

Abstract: A content delivery system comprising: a communications network; a media component connected to the communications network, the media component configured to deliver content for consumption at user devices connected to the communications network; an engagement monitoring component configured to monitor user engagement with auxiliary content played out at the user devices; a storage component which holds engagement monitoring data in association with user identifiers of users of the content delivery system; a content control module configured to receive from a user device a request for content data, the content control module being operable to selectively deliver enhanced content data based on the engagement monitoring data held in association with a user identifier associated with a user of the user device.

Abstract: There is disclosed a content delivery system for delivering content to a user, the system comprising a personalised schedule controller configured to receive content recommendations for a user including at least one constrained asset, and for generating a personalised schedule for the user in dependence on the at least one constrained asset included in the content recommendation.

Abstract: In one embodiment, there is a content delivery system comprising: a communication network; a media component configured to transmit media content and associated metadata to user devices; a store holding permission vouchers for users of the system; an auxiliary content management component configured to: receive a request for auxiliary content insertion information from a user device, the request comprising an identifier of a user of the user device and an identifier of desired media content; access said store to determine permission for consumption of the desired media content in a resource constrained playout mode at the device based on at least one permission voucher for the user; generate auxiliary content insertion information based on the identifier of the user, the identifier of the desired media content and the at least one permission voucher; and transmit the generated auxiliary content insertion information to the user device.

Abstract: In one embodiment there is disclosed a content delivery system comprising: a communications network; a media component connected to the communications network, the media component configured to deliver media content for playout at a user device; an auxiliary content component connected to the communications network for providing auxiliary content for playout at a user device; an engagement monitoring component configured to monitor user engagement with auxiliary content played out at the user device; a storage component which holds engagement monitoring data in association with user identifiers; a content control module configured to receive, from a user device, a request for auxiliary content to be inserted in a playout session for playout at the user device, and selectively control delivery of the auxiliary content based on the engagement monitoring data associated with a user identifier for the user device.

Abstract: There is disclosed a content delivery computer system arranged to recommend content items to a user of the system having at least one predetermined characteristic, the content delivery system comprising: a social media analyser configured to receive and analyse social media communications from multiple consumers; a grouping component for grouping at least some of the consumers according to the analysed social media communications into respective groups; and a recommendation module configured to receive the at least one predetermined characteristic of the user, compare it with group characteristics of the respective groups to identify a group that shares the at least one predetermined characteristic, and generate a recommendation comprising one of more selected content items for the user based on the identified group of consumers; and an interface for delivering the recommendation to the user.

Abstract: There is disclosed a system comprising a first device and a second device, each being associated with a user, in which a user interface of the first device is configured in dependence on content associated with the second device.

Abstract: There is provided a computer device for providing recommendations to a user device associated with a user, the computer device including a processor configured to: determine a set of recommendations for the user based on a current user context; transmit a recommendation message to the user device based on the determined set of recommendations; monitor the information from which the set of recommendations are derived; in dependence on identifying a change in the information, transmitting a modified recommendation to the user device.

Abstract: There is disclosed a computer device for providing recommendations to a user device associated with a user, the computer device including a processor configured to: determine a set of recommendations for the user based on a current user con text; transmit a recommendation message to the user device based on the determined set of recommendations; monitor the information from which the set of recommendations are derived; wherein at least one recommendation is associated with a perishable asset, the processor being configured to determine the set of recommendations additionally based on the state of the perishable asset.