Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Joel Edward Freeman

Alex Hwang

Bhumik Sanghavi

Sri Sreedharan

Peter Alfred Cruz Bautista

Alexander Hwang

Thomas Harold Bair

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 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

Systems and methods for dynamic filtering of content stream manifests are provided. Rules may be stored in memory of a proxy server regarding a plurality of different manifest inconsistencies. Each rule may associate a different manifest inconsistency with one or more indicators and a corresponding solution. One or more segments of a content stream may be provided between a content delivery network server and a client device. Such segments may be monitored by the proxy server, which may act as an intermediary between the content delivery network server and the client device. The proxy server may detect when a manifest of the monitored content stream exhibits one of the manifest inconsistencies based on the presence of the associated indicators. The solution corresponding to the exhibited manifest inconsistency may be identified based on the stored rule associated with the detected indicators. The retrieved solution may then be applied to the content stream, such that the exhibited manifest inconsistency is resolved before the monitored segments are delivered to the client device.

Dynamic filtering and amelioration of content stream manifests

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.

Techniques for improving media applications are described. In an example, a system presents content based on an execution of a media application that includes a first streaming protocol library. This execution includes streaming the content based on the first streaming protocol library. The system receives a user interaction with the media application indicating a request for a media player to present the content. The system receives, from the media application, content information about the content and selects a second streaming protocol library from a plurality of streaming protocol libraries of the media player. The second streaming protocol library corresponds to the first streaming protocol library. The system presents the content based on an execution of the media player and on the content information. This execution includes streaming the content based on the second streaming protocol library.

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Joel Edward Freeman