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Thriving Brightcove Secures Key Patent

Brightcove has been issued a broad patent for the "distribution of content," which covers the basic features of a professional online video platform, TechCrunch reports. The patent, which the company applied for back in 2005, describes some of the basic features of all professional online video players, such as customizable players, digital rights management, and syndication. "In other words, how video is experienced, and how it is controlled -- essential aspects for professional video publishers."

Not that Brightcove has been hurting sans patent until now. On the contrary, Brightcove is now streaming 700 million videos a month, TechCrunch reports, which the company believes would place it among the top five online video platforms on the Web.

"That number is up from 400,000 videos streams per month in March, 2010" -- while those videos are spread out among Brightcove's 3,000 paying customers, including professionals publishers, media sites, and brands.

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