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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Hulu, Llc, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Baptiste Coudurier, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Sherin Kurian, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Assignee:

HULU, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/64738 (2013.01); H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04N 21/64753 (2013.01); H04L 41/509 (2013.01);
Abstract

Particular embodiments allow a content delivery service to dynamically adjust how the service allocates content delivery traffic to multiple content delivery networks (CDNs). In one embodiment, the content delivery service may service enough requests for media programs that multiple CDNs are used. This allows the content delivery service to allocate traffic to different CDNs. Instead of solely relying on the CDN to provide quality of service solutions, the content delivery service may configure client devices to send information to it that allows the content delivery service to analyze the media program playback quality of service. Then, the content delivery service can adjust the allocation for the CDNs if a problem is detected at a specific CDN.


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