Unicorn Media, Inc.

Brightcove Inc.

Other

Adeia Media Holdings LLC

Albert John McGowan

Nicholas Maultsby

Matthew A Johnson

Richard L Carls

Jared Marshall

Niko Thomas John Huffman

Michael Edmund Godlewski

Christian D Moosman

Niko T J Huffman

Benjamin Lebrato Ahern

Michael M Gordon

David Morel

Niko Huffman

Richard I Carls

Techniques described herein provide for a live advertising processing engine service to act as an intermediary between client applications and advertising networks. The live advertising processing engine service can provide an interface with which the client can interact, via an application programming interface (API) or directly through the use of a standardized language, thereby allowing client applications to receive advertisement data without the need to be customized to communicate with specific advertising networks. The live advertising processing engine service can further track where, in playback the live content, a client currently is, to indicate to the client—or other application—when advertisement breaks are and/or provide supplemental advertisement information to enable the client to provide a rich user experience.

Live ad processing engine service

Techniques described herein provide for a live advertising processing engine service to act as an intermediary between client applications and advertising networks. The live advertising processing engine service can provide an interface with which the client can interact, via an application programming interface (API) or directly through the use of a standardized language, thereby allowing client applications to receive advertisement data without the need to be customized to communicate with specific advertising networks. The live advertising processing engine service can further track where, in playback the live content, a client currently is, to indicate to the client&#x2014;or other application&#x2014;when advertisement breaks are and/or provide supplemental advertisement information to enable the client to provide a rich user experience.

Techniques are provided for dynamically creating index files for streaming media based on a determined chunking strategy. The chunking strategy can be determined using historical data of any of a variety of factors, such as Quality of Service (QoS) information. By using historical data in this manner, index files can be generated using chunking strategies that can improve these factors over time.

Dynamic chunking for delivery instances

Timestamps for streams of media that transition from one media source to another (such as from live content to on-demand content, and vice versa) can be rewritten by a server to help ensure error-free streaming by the client. Embodiments can coordinate the creation of a client manifest with the dynamic creation of a requested segment of media (i.e., 'chunk') to determine how to rewrite timestamps of requested chunks such that they are continuous through the transition.

Dynamic manifest generation based on client identity

A system, method and apparatus are disclosed which may be used to provide demographic and behavior data of a user of a video service provider. The user demographic information may be obtained by obtaining an image of the user, analyzing the image data, and providing the information about the determined demographic data. Behavior data may be obtained from at least one sensor monitoring user actions and correlating the user actions with video content being provided to the user.

Demographic determination for media consumption analytics

Dynamic chunk manipulation for streaming mixed media: application programming interface

Dynamic chunk manipulation for streaming mixed live and on-demand media: dynamic permutation layer

Systems and methods for enabling dynamic advertisement insertion into media files without transcoding are disclosed. The techniques disclosed involve retrieving files of the media and advertisement(s) and converting the files to an MPEG-2 transport stream (MPEG-2 TS) format. The MPEG-2 TS streams are then joined to insert the advertisement at a desired point in the media file. The resulting MPEG-2 TS stream is then converted back to a media file, which can be provided for downloading, or optionally reindexed. Because it does not require transcoding, this process can be performed on-the-fly to provide dynamic insertion of advertisements into media files. Other media file manipulation, including the insertion of non-advertisement media, is contemplated.

Transcodeless on-the-fly ad insertion

Dynamic chunk manipulation for streaming mixed live and on-demand media: application programming interface

Techniques described herein provide for an advertising processing engine service to act as an intermediary between client applications and advertising networks. The advertising processing engine service can provide an interface with which the client can interact, via an application programming interface (API) or directly through the use of a standardized language, thereby allowing client applications to receive advertisement data without the need to be customized to communicate with specific advertising networks. On the other hand, the advertising processing engine service can receive requests from clients and communicate these requests to advertising networks in the corresponding language and/or format they require.

Advertising processing engine service

Systems and methods for providing index files for dynamic audio track selection for media streaming can include receiving requests for media file segments (e.g., 'chunks') with a certain audio track and responding to the requests by dynamically generating the corresponding media file segment with the requested audio track. The generated media file segment can then be provided to the requesting entity.

Dynamic audio track selection for media streaming

Methods and systems are disclosed for providing live media streaming over a communication network. Timing data of a received live media stream is mapped to time values from a system clock. The time values are used for transmission of the media stream.

Clock locking for live media streaming

Various arrangements for controlling access to a set of media items accessible via multiple channels are presented. An indication of a media item may be stored. Multiple sets of rules may be received, including a first and second set of rules. Requests for access to the media item may be received from a first and second application. The first request may be determined to be is associated with a first channel, wherein the first channel is associated with the first set of rules. Access to the media item may be provide in accordance with the first set of rules. The second request may be determined to be associated with a second channel. Access to the media item may be provided in accordance with the second set of rules.

Enterprise grade rights management

Methods and systems are disclosed for providing live media streaming over a communication network. Timing data of a received live media stream is mapped to time values from a system clock. Offset time values are assigned to a plurality of clients requesting live media content. The time values and the offset time values are used for transmission of the media stream.

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Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Albert John McGowan