Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Meera Jindal

Varun Ram

Khawaja Salman Shams

Ki Myung Han

Chris Price

Matthew Brinkley

Alex Xiaoye Zhang

Viriya Ratanasangpunth

Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz

Saurav Sengupta

Michael Vidyadhar Kale

Akhil Ramachandran

Ryan Farris

Mark DeSpain

Kenneth Victor Chamberlin

Sierra Anderson

Abilash Ravikumar

John Cowgill

William Dirks

Ahmet Gurcan

Dylan Kyle Abraham

A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.

Automatically processing content streams for insertion points

Dynamic transcoding can be used to provide supplemental content, selected to be played during breaks in a stream of primary content, that has the same format as the primary content. It can be desirable to provide supplemental content that is personalized. This may include additional content or advertising that may be of interest or relevance to a viewer. In many instances, the supplemental content will come from a different source and thus can be in a different format. Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can take advantage of dynamic transcoding of the supplemental content to provide properly formatted supplemental content through the same stream as the primary content. A custom manifest can be provided to the media player that points to the transcoded supplemental content. At an appropriate break in the playback, the media player can use the manifest to obtain the formatted supplemental content.

Transcoding of video content

A content delivery service includes a management service for determining an anticipated window of time in which supplemental content can be inserted in the dynamic content stream. The management service will then pre-fetch supplemental content from the third party supplemental content service prior the identification or request for supplemental content to be included in the streaming content. During the streaming of content to individual users via an established channel, as markers for insertion opportunities are identified, the content delivery service will attempt to utilize the pool of pre-fetched supplemental content.

Managing supplemental content in content delivery systems

A media storage service may store a plurality of copies of a same media recording in cloud DVR, one copy specific to one of a plurality of clients. The client may interact directly with the media storage service based on path-based indexing techniques for playback of the media recording. The client may send a request, including a path of a manifest file associated with the copy specific to the client, to the media storage service. The manifest file may include information indicating respective paths of one or more segments of the copy. The media storage service may identify and return the manifest file to the client. The media storage service may further receive requests from the client to access the segments of the copy. The requests may include the respective paths, based on which the media storage service may retrieve the segments for the client to play.

Using path-based indexing to access media recordings stored in a media storage service

A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize analytic rules and other information to characterize performance of the user device, such as detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.

Characterizing attributes of user devices requesting encoded content streaming

A media storage service may maintain an asset including information to indicate a specific media content and a specific number of replicas to be stored by the media storage service for the specific media content. The media storage service may receive content recording-related requests from a recording manager to define or update the specific number for the specific media content. The media storage service may receive one or more segments specific to the media content from an encoder. The media storage service may create and store the specific number of replicas, as indicated in the asset, for the media content.

Asset-level management of media recording in cloud DVR systems

Automatically generating content for dynamically determined insertion points

A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize various techniques to address performance of the user device, such as detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.

Managing content encoding based on user device configurations

A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize various techniques to address performance of the user device responsive to detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.

Managing content encoding based on detection of user device configurations

A multimedia stream may include an indication to insert multimedia content to the multimedia stream. An insertion segment may be selected from among multiple segments such that the insertion segment is selected based in part on metadata such as metadata associated with the recipient of the multimedia stream. Metadata associated with the insertion segment may be obtained. Satisfaction of a compliance requirement may be determined based on various information, such as metadata associated with the recipient and metadata associated with the insertion segment. The insertion segment may be made available as part of the multimedia stream.

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Meera Jindal