Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Alex Hwang

Joel Edward Freeman

Bhumik Sanghavi

Sri Sreedharan

A Reductive Edging device and computer program product. The Reductive Edging device has a processor, memory coupled to the processor and non-transitory instructions embedded in the memory that when executed by the processor causes the device to perform a method for reductive edging. The method includes, prior to sending a media segment to a client device, performing error de-emphasis operations and sending information associated with error de-emphasis.

Error de-emphasis in live streaming

To reduce latency in streaming media a playlist requested from a content delivery network may be modified to have modified segmentation. After receiving the playlist from the content delivery network, the location of one or more I-frames in each segment in the playlist may be determined and these locations may be used to generate the modified playlist. The modified playlist may then be sent to a client device. Media segments may be modified in accordance with the modified segmentation of the modified playlist to generate modified media segments that can be sent to the client device.

IDR fracking for glass to glass latency reduction

Prior to receiving a request from a client device for information from a content distribution network (CDN), a Reductive Edging device predictively requests the information from the CDN based on prior user activity and stores it in memory. The Reductive Edging device is thus configured to respond to the request from the client device for information from the CDN with the information stored in the memory prior to receiving the request.

Video start-time reduction employing reductive edging principles

A method for redirecting data traffic includes receiving a first request from a client device addressed to a first server and sending the first request from the client device to the first server, and determining rerouting rules. A response may be received addressed to client device from the first server the response is sent to the client device. Metadata from client device may be received wherein the metadata provides information about a second request from the client device and a second request from the client device is received addressed to the first server, the information about the second request in the metadata is compared to the rerouting rules and the second request is sent according the rerouting rules.

Dynamic inferred sessional proxy server system

A method system and computer program product for bandwidth usage reduction in media streaming, comprises, receiving user streaming information from a client device and refining a user model with the user streaming information. The user streaming information reflects a user's media consumption habits. Subsequently a request for a media playlist from the client device is received and media segments are prospectively requested based on the user model before receiving a request for the media segments. The requested media playlist is sent to the client device; and the prospectively requested media segments are sent upon receiving a request for a media segment from the client device.

Bandwidth usage reduction employing media treading with reductive edging

Prior to receiving a request from a client device for information from a content distribution network (CDN), a Reductive Edging device requests the information from the CDN and stores it in memory. The Reductive Edging device is thus configured to respond to the request from the client device for information from the CDN with the information stored in the memory prior to receiving the request.

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Orinda, CA, United States of America

Alex Hwang