The Unified Content Guide creates a unified past, present and future timeline for programmes. It integrates broadcast, on-demand, IPTV and personal content.
Allows for the creation and sharing of Personal Channels and displays programme, user-generated and social metadata for each programme.
Provides a set of possible actions for each programme, showing what is possible for each programme at any given time.
SlipStream’s Unified Content Guide provides a single interface to content from all sources: broadcast, on-demand, IPTV and personal content. The UCG sits atop SlipStream’s CloudPlay architecture, which provides the UCG with real-time programme availability information for a user’s own content cloud. Availability is based on any combination of sources, networks, devices and rights and which determines which actions are possible and relevant for a programme at any given time, such as being able to view, record, share, buy, tag or categorise a programme or series.
The UCG can be provided with a variety of user interfaces, ranging from a ‘traditional’ grid model with the addition of users’ personal channels created by SlipStream through to SlipStream’s own SmartSearch active progamme discovery.
The UCG can be integrated at a broadcaster or platform level, with the application provided online to web and mobile clients. For STBs, the application can be resident on the STB middleware, transmitted over the broadcast stream or downloaded over the return path. The service takes advantage of devices which feature a return path but also has the capability to deliver functions and data to legacy devices with no return path by incorporating a highly-compressed data-stream with the broadcast stream. Full UCG management from a STB requires a box with a connected return path.
The UCG can be provided as part of an overall customer-branded SlipStream client, be presented as an API for integration with existing client and middleware solutions, or included as part of a complete bespoke client development. SlipStream can also be integrated with existing customer databases, CRM systems and Business Intelligence tools.
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