Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rakesh Tangirala

Yongjun Wu

Amarsingh Buckthasingh Winston

Khawaja Salman Shams

Lei Li

Stefan Christian Richter

David J Simons

Andrew Stuart Glass

Matthew Brinkley

Nicholas James Benson

Robert Osborne

Ajay P Chitturi

Mairo Pedrini

Srikanth Kiran Kotagiri

Sitaraman Ganapathy

Kyle Alexander Woo

Vishal Chhabilbhai Thakkar

Manish Rao

Matthew Scharr

Leon Chih Wen Wong

Ling-Cheung Aaron Lo

Tarun Jindal

Techniques are described for providing metadata corresponding to primary content of live media streams that include secondary content inserted into the streams.

Providing metadata for live media streams

Techniques are described for server-side fragment insertion and delivery of media content. After receiving a request to play back media content, a manifest is generated that includes fragments associated with the requested media content and fragments associated with different media content. A client device requests fragments from a media server according to the manifest, and the media server provides the correct fragment in response to the request.

Server-side fragment insertion and delivery

Methods and apparatus are described for providing media presentations that include content originating from multiple sources. Techniques disclosed include server-side logic for inserting secondary content, such as advertisements, into primary content, such as a VOD presentation. Systems implementing the disclosed techniques can support different viewer device capabilities relating to displaying media presentations that include content from multiple sources.

Manifest data for server-side media fragment insertion

A system and methods for facilitating multiparty communications sessions with a plurality of participants and for dynamically designating a communications session manager. More particularly, a system and methods, including protocols, for: establishing a multiparty communications session between a plurality of participants and their respective communication devices in a full-mesh topology; establishing a dynamically designated session manager uniquely associated with a first participant of the multiparty session and, hence, such participant's communication device; as necessary, adding and removing participants and their respective communication devices from the multiparty communications session; and, designating, or electing, another participant as session manager when the first participant exits the multiparty communications session. The methods also enable participants to maintain consistent lists of session participants and establish peer to peer communication links between the participants.

System and methods for facilitating a multiparty communications session with a dynamically designated session manager

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Rakesh Tangirala