Conviva Inc.

Ningning Hu

Aditya Ravikumar Ganjam

Ion Stoica

Jibin Zhan

George C Necula

John W Heffner

Mei-Hsuan Lu

Karthik K Lakshminarayanan

Asad K Awan

Ryan J Huebsch

Weijia Li

Ming Liu

Lei Cao

Chang Sun

Hui Joyce Zhang

Hui Zhang

Remote multi-target client monitoring for streaming content is disclosed. Raw data generated within a remote client device is received from the client device. The raw data is associated with content playback. An adaptor is used to translate the raw data into a unified data model. The translating comprises determining, from the raw data, a designation of at least one of a start and an end of a monitoring session.

Remote multi-target client monitoring for streaming content

Facilitating a decision of a content player is disclosed. In some cases, performance information associated with a content player is received. The information is received from a client. A determination is made that an update should be sent to the client. The update is sent to the client. In other cases, information is received from an external entity. Based at least in part on the received information, an instruction is sent to a content player.

Facilitating client decisions

Establishing a data store of content metadata includes receiving, from a content player executing on a client device, an indication of content played by the content player, the indication comprising one or more pieces of metadata associated with the content. It further includes selecting a set of one or more rules applicable to parsing the metadata associated with the content. It further includes processing the metadata at least in part by applying the selected parsing rules to at least a portion of the metadata associated with the content. It further includes storing, to a data store, at least some of the processed metadata associated with the content.

Asset metadata service

Controlling dynamic reporting of content distribution performance information from a client is disclosed. The content distribution performance information associated with the delivery of content is generated. The content distribution performance information is reported to a content distribution monitor at a first reporting level. In response to a triggering event, the first reporting level is changed to a second reporting level. Additional content distribution performance information is reported according to the second reporting level.

Dynamic client logging and reporting

Displaying video on a video display device is disclosed. A first video stream from a first video streaming source is displayed on the display device. A second video stream from a second video streaming source is processed on the display device without displaying the second video stream. Displaying the first video stream is ceased and instead the second video stream is displayed. Supporting operations on a video stream is also disclosed. At least one video chunk is received at a first granularity. A determination is made that an operation is to be performed at a different granularity. At least one video chunk is requested at the different granularity.

Switching content

Improving a content player is disclosed. A monitoring module is configured to obtain status information associated with a content player. The monitoring module is loaded. Status information associated with the content player is obtained. A report of at least a portion of the obtained status information is made to a monitoring service.

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Ningning Hu