CAPTURING AND SHARING MEDIA CONTENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SHARED MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

A media device allows users to watch and capture portions from a media broadcast. The media device receives a media stream, plays the media stream, and caches a portion of the media stream as it is being played. A user can define a media clip by selecting its boundaries in the cached portion of the media stream. The media device creates the media clip based on the user's input and enables the user to transmit the media clip to another system, such as a website. Before providing requested media content, the website may combine it with advertisements. The website may receive advertising revenue from advertisers and may share it with owners of the media content in exchange for their permission to provide the media content. The advertisers may provide restrictions on how the advertisements are combined. The content owners may provide restrictions on how the media content items are provided.