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Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2018
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Eduardo Jimenez, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rodrigo Meneses, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Mahesh Kumar Vasanthusomashekar, Newark, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4331 (2013.01); H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example described herein may include sending a request to access a media stream from a content delivery network; receiving program content of the media stream from the content delivery network; sending a request, for supplemental content information, to a supplemental content server based on receiving the program content, where the supplemental content information is associated with an upcoming time period of the media stream, and where the request includes information identifying the upcoming time period; obtaining, prior to the upcoming time period, the supplemental content information associated with the media stream for the upcoming time period; and during streaming of the media stream, inserting the supplemental content associated with the supplemental content information in one or more breaks of the media stream during the upcoming time period.


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