Conviva Inc.

Ryan J Huebsch

Aditya Ravikumar Ganjam

Ion Stoica

Jibin Zhan

Karthik K Lakshminarayanan

Hui Joyce Zhang

Ningning Hu

Asad K Awan

George C Necula

Prashanth Pappu

Hui Zhang

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

Improving a content player engagement is described. An engagement of a first content player with respect to a content item being downloaded by the first client is measured. Performance information associated with the first content player is obtained. A quantitative relationship between the engagement and the performance information is determined. How a second client obtains the same content is adjusted based at least in part on the determined quantitative relationship.

Monitoring the performance of a content player

Monitoring performance data associated with a content player is disclosed. Information relating to the state of a content player is obtained on a time driven basis. At least a portion of the obtained information is reported, via a communications interface, to a content distribution monitoring server.

Delivering a video stream is disclosed. A request for the video stream is received. A past portion of the video stream is delivered to a client. The past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer. Receiving a video stream is also disclosed. A request for the video stream is transmitted. A past portion of the video stream is received. The received past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer.

Delivering a video stream

Improving a content player engagement is described. An engagement of a first content player with respect to a first content item being downloaded by the first client is measured. Performance information associated with the first content player is received. A quantitative relationship between the engagement and the performance information is determined. A setting associated with a download of the first content item by a second client is adjusted.

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Ryan J Huebsch