Quickplay Media Inc.

Directv, LLC

The Directv Group, Inc.

Kavi Maharajh

Torin Walker

Bart MacNeil

Hui Gang Zhang

Igor Sandler

Nick Dingle

Eloi Minka

Balayogan Sachithananthan

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for managing playback of content delivered to a mobile device with a pause and resume functionality. The method and system including receiving delivered content on a mobile device, initiating playback of the delivered content, pausing playback of the content being delivered to the mobile device in response to an action and resuming delivery of the content upon a request.

Mobile media pause and resume

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for delivery of content on a mobile media platform, providing an automated tag processing facility, and delivering content to a mobile device, wherein content delivery is based at least in part on the automated tag processing.

Automated content tag processing for mobile media

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for providing video content to a display of a user, wherein the providing of the video content comprises generating a mobile media streaming server log using a real-time streaming protocol, determining that a portion of the video content has been viewed by the user resulting in a viewed portion, and identifying a first advertisement and media content within the viewed portion. The first advertisement is identified from among a group of advertisements of the video content. A settlement agreement is identified regarding viewing of the first advertisement and media content of the viewed portion, and financial account is settled according to the settlement agreement according to the mobile media streaming server log.

Mediation and settlement for mobile media

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for mobile media event mediation, normalizing mobile media event information from a plurality of sources, wherein at least some of the information is represented differently in each of the plurality of sources, producing a mobile media data record from the normalized information, analyzing the mobile media data record to determine a settlement arrangement, providing at least some of the participants represented in the mobile media record with relevant information from the settlement agreement.

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for switching between broadcast and unicast content on a mobile device. The method and system involves making unicast content available to the mobile device, making broadcast content available to the mobile device; and providing an application on the mobile device which allows for switching between the unicast and broadcast content.

Seamlessly switching among unicast, multicast, and broadcast mobile media content

The present invention provides methods and systems for enabling content streaming on mobile devices. The methods and systems may include encoding a content stream; providing the encoded content stream to a splitter embodied in computer executable code, which splits the encoded content stream into at least two channels, with each channel having data of a characteristic chunk size; downloading at least one data chunk into a playback queue, wherein a download algorithm determines the at least one chunk to be downloaded; and providing the at least one downloaded chunk to a media player.

Progressive download playback

Embodiments provide a method that causes a plurality of virtual machine instructions to be interpreted for indications of a mobile device's hardware identification information, thus forming a plurality of hardware instruction interpretations. The embodiment also combines each of the plurality of hardware instruction interpretations and hashes the combination to form a quasi-hardware device identifier. An encryption process is based on the quasi-hardware encryption device identifier and the media is then encrypted using the encryption process. The encrypted media is transferred to the mobile device wherein the mobile device decrypts the media based at least in part on the mobile device's internal knowledge of the quasi-hardware device identification.

Digital rights management in a mobile environment

In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for encoding content for mobile media distribution determining an encoding format based on one or more of a consumption profile, a content profile, an ingestion profile, a network profile, a mobile device profile, a delivery profile, and a user profile, encoding content to provide an encoded content consistent with the determined encoding format, and providing the encoded content to one or more of a content host, a content cache, a distribution portal, a mobile carrier, and a mobile device.

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