Google Inc.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Arris Enterprises LLC

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Haifeng Xu

Praveen N Moorthy

Ajay K Luthra

Paul Moroney

Arjun Ramamurthy

Michael Andrew Grossman

Mark Steven Schmidt

Thomas L Du Breuil

Glen Peter Goffin, Ii

A content moving device which enables providing content stored on a first user device, such as a DVR, in a first format and resolution to be provided to a second user device, such as a portable media player (PMP) in a second format and resolution. The content moving device identifies content on the first user device as candidate content which may be desired by the PMP and receives the candidate content from the DVR. The content moving device transcodes the candidate content at times independent of a request from the PMP for the content. The content moving device may provide a list of available transcoded content to the PMP for selection, and provide selected content to the PMP. The content moving device may also provide information relating to any protection schemes of the content provided to the PMP, such as DRM rights and decryption keys. The content moving device performs the often computationally intense and time consuming transcoding of user content to enable the user to move content between different user devices in a convenient manner.

Moving content between set top box and end devices in home

Provided herein are systems and methods that allow for converting or translating Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) to HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and vice versa.

Devices, systems, and methods for converting or translating dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) to HTTP live streaming (HLS)

In embodiments of broadcast content to HTTP client conversion, a client converter receives video content as an input of broadcast content data streams from a content distribution system. The client converter can join a content data stream of the broadcast input, and convert the content data stream to unicast HTTP data, such as video content segments that are buffered for communication to a client device or to a media player of a client device. An HTTP server of the client converter can then communicate the unicast HTTP data to the client device or to the media player for playback of the video content.

Broadcast content to HTTP client conversion

In embodiments of broadcast content to HTTP client conversion, a client converter () receives video content () as an input () of broadcast content data streams from a content distribution system (). The client converter can join a content data stream of the broadcast input, and convert the content data stream to unicast HTTP data, such as video content segments () that are buffered for communication to a client device () or to a media player () of a client device (). An HTTP server () of the client converter can then communicate the unicast HTTP data to the client device or to the media player for playback of the video content.

A method for providing video content from a server to a plurality of media devices is disclosed, the method comprising: determining, by the server, the bandwidth to allocate to each of the plurality of media devices using a hypertext transfer protocol-based live streaming client model or a need parameter vector and providing the allocated bandwidth to each of the plurality of media devices, wherein the video content is transmitted in a plurality of segments from the server, and wherein each segment is transmitted at a bitrate that may vary from segment to segment.

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Haifeng Xu