Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Benjamin Raphael Forman

Yongjun Wu

Ravindra Ganti

Gaurav Saxena

Charles Benjamin Waggoner

James Mutton

Steve Huynh

Euan McLeod

Avinash Priya Khurana

Nathaniel Stewart

James Wesley Bell

Prasanth Saraswatula

Hani Suleiman

Andrew James McVeigh

Abhishek Trivedi

John FX Gaquin

Joseph Michael Pavey

Saumil Patel

Ho Yin Ng

Bobby Castleberry

Vitaly Panor

Shazia Khan

Stephen Han

Joohoon Kim

Linear playout provides media content according to a schedule. Live events and video on demand (VOD) assets may be provided as part of linear playout. The linear playout process may be optimized to improve quality of experience for users and decrease the costs in providing such content.

Cost and efficiency optimization in channel playout

Methods and apparatus are described for delivering streams of media content in ways that maintain compatibility among different streaming protocols for inserting secondary content into the streams of media content. This is accomplished by encoding media content the same for each streaming protocol but generating different output groups based on each streaming protocol.

Management of SCTE and contents in ad breaks for compatibility

Some implementations include methods for generating a portable entitlement for a digital asset and may include generating a portable entitlement to a digital asset based on a request initiated by a first user having an entitlement to the digital asset, the portable entitlement to enable the first user to access the digital asset using a second computing device of a second user, the request initiated using a first computing device of the first user, the portable entitlement having a limited lifetime; and terminating the second computing device from accessing the digital asset based on one or more of determining that a proximity between the first and second computing devices violate the distance threshold and the lifetime of the portable entitlement has expired.

Portable entitlement

Techniques are described for just-in-time variable adaptive encoding and delivery of media content. Fragments of media content are encoded at bitrates corresponding to available bandwidth of client devices. If the available bandwidth changes, the bitrate at which fragments are being encoded is adjusted to correspond with the changed bandwidth.

Just-in-time variable adaptive encoding and delivery of media content

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Watford, United Kingdom

Benjamin Raphael Forman