Team 5. Motorola

Schaumburg, Illinois

User Generated Video Service for the iPhone

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From a son's first steps to a daughter's wedding day, home videos help us capture our most important memories so we can share them with our closest family and friends.

It is convenient to share videos through online applications for some generations, but not for all. However, it is easy to turn on a television set, and navigate and watch cable; generations have been doing this for years.

Motorola’s Mobile User Generated Video Service has combined the convenience of an online application with the ease of cable television. Once created, a user generated video is uploaded to a central Video on Demand (VOD) server located at a cable headend where it is stored. The video is added to the appropriate customer’s programming guide so it can be selected and streamed to the cable set top.

Users of the mobile application record a video with the camera on their phone, upload it, view it, give it a name and description, and associate buddies with it. Associating a buddy with a video gives them permission to view it on their cable set top box; they can easily turn on their television, navigate to the video they want to watch, click play, and the video is streamed from our server to their screen.

In addition, the developed VOD server can capture live television in the cable headend and make the captures available for cable users to view.

All services are programmed in Java and Objective-C, using a Glassfish application server, and a MySQL database.

Ryan Ley, Robert Palmer, Philip Deschaine, Mary Fetsco

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