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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gareth John Bowen, Chandlers Ford, GB;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method, system, and apparatus is described, the method, system, and apparatus including the creation of a dedicated Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming (HLS) adaptive bitrate (ABR) timed metadata stream which is located at a designated location, the populating the dedicated HLS ABR timed metadata stream with timed metadata items which signal availability of a particular subset of a superset of all media types which are anticipated as being available in streaming media playlists and making the timed metadata items available to an application on a client device. Related methods, systems and apparatus is also described.