Conviva Inc.

Alexey Serbin

Faisal Zakaria Siddiqi

Aditya Ravikumar Ganjam

Hui Joyce Zhang

Ion Stoica

Jibin Zhan

Davis Shepherd

Yan Li

Haijie Wu

Xi Liu

Oleg Vasilyev

Alexander Schneidman

Alexander Kolbasov

Soumyadeb Mitra

Generating streaming decisions at one or more remote servers on behalf of a local client is disclosed. An indication of a content request, multi-dimensional client information, and local state information are received from a client device. A record specific to the client device is generated, in a data store, using the received local state information. The data store includes a plurality of records corresponding to respective different client devices. A set of instructions usable by the client device to obtain and play content is determined based at least in part the local state information received from the client device. The determined set of instructions is transmitted to the client device.

Streaming decision in the cloud

Selecting an optimal bitrate range is disclosed. A request for content from a first client is received. An optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined. The optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined based at least in part on one or more real-time quality measures. A different optimal subset of bitrates is determined for a second client. An indication of the optimal subset of bitrates determined for the first client is provided to the first client. The first client is configured to obtain content according to the indication of the optimal subset of bitrates.

Dynamic bitrate range selection in the cloud for optimized video streaming

Directing a content player to a content source is disclosed. A message from a content management system including information associated with a client that is currently requesting content is received. Based at least in part on the information included in the message, a set of content sources is determined. Instructions indicating the set of content sources for the client are sent to the content management system.

Virtual resource locator

Custom traffic tagging on a control plane backend is disclosed. Information associated with a video session is obtained. Based at least in part on at least some of the obtained information associated with the video session, additional metadata to associate with the video session is determined. The additional metadata is determined from metadata obtained from one or more disparate sources. The video session is associated with the determined additional metadata.

Custom traffic tagging on the control plane backend

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Alexey Serbin