User Features

SlipStream’s user-facing features include:

• A Unified Content Guide (UCG) for broadcast, on-demand and personal content.
• RemoteRecord: Users can browse their UCG from any device and set programmes to record remotely to their PVR at any time.
• Contextual Actions: for any programme in the UCG, SlipStream will show all the actions currently possible for a given programme.
• SmartShare: A user can rate any programme and/or recommend it, either to their friends or to the world at large. SlipStream also makes behaviourally-driven recommendations to users and groups.
• Tagging: SlipStream supports user tagging and sharing against programmes, titles and genres. The ability to tag and share segments within a programme is designed into SlipStream and is currently under development.
• SmartSearch: SlipStream allows users to search broadcast, on-demand and local content on multiple criteria and to save their choices as repeatable SmartSearches.
• Cross-platform Clients: SlipStream clients are available for Set-Top Boxes, web browsers and mobile phones. The SlipStream API allows ready and selective integration of SlipStream features with third party clients and middleware.
• Widgets: SlipStream also provides a range of widgets for the simple integration of online sources with STBs - these currently include Twitter and Flickr clients, weather trackers and other information service widgets.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes, SlipStream provides:

• A Standards-based Server environment with a 360° API that allows the rapid integration of multiple metadata and content sources, identity and transaction services, social networks and client devices.
• A Lightweight Social Network (LSN) for the management of user and group identities, preferencess and social network accounts
• A highly efficient encoding protocol for the injection of social metadata into the broadcast carousel, thereby socially enabling the legacy installed base of STBs.
• An extensible Recommendation engine which uses multiple algorithms to match user preferences and behaviour with programming.
• CloudPlay: Maintains and tracks the availability of any content to a user via a given device and network and delivers the results to the UCG, conditioned by any content owner, legal or network-imposed restrictions.
• MetaData integrator: This maps multiple metadata sources into SlipStream’s internal metadatabase, which uses the TV Anytime standard as the common denominator for content metadata.

SlipStream can also integrate with existing customer CRM systems. Integration with industry ad placement engines is planned.

Licensing

SlipStream features can be deployed as required: a customer can start with something as simple as remote recording management and progressively switch on new SlipStream features over time, creating and extending a highly-monetisable user proposition. This flexible, modular and extensible architecture can be licensed in several ways:

• As an end-to-end solution providing a fully-integrated client and server architecture
• As a back-end service, integrated with customer hardware, software and middleware.
• As a complete custom deployment.

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