Viewers can search for content in a number of ways using different criteria.
Searches can be saved and re-run at any time to provide new results.
Searches can be saved on one platform and retrieved on another.
SlipStream’s SmartSearch lets viewers find TV and radio programmes across broadcast, on-demand and stored sources. Content can be searched for using an extensible range of criteria: alphabetically, by title, by genre, by format, by date and time – and saved as ‘Smart Collections’, which are then kept constantly up-to-date.
So if a viewer wants to find all soaps on in the afternoon across all channels, they just specify the search criteria and save the search – knowing that it will be kept constantly updated for them. They can even specify that all programmes in a search be automatically recorded.
The service 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. Viewers with legacy STBs can use the web or a mobile phone to set up their personalised searches, the results of which then appear on their STB.
SmartSearch 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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