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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Yongjun Wu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sitaraman Ganapathy, Issaquah, WA (US);
Zhi Xu, Snohomish, WA (US);
Lovish Dhawan, Bothell, WA (US);
Ivan Yeo, Seattle, WA (US);
Yashodhan Gokhale, Seattle, WA (US);
Jed Hoffmann, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques enabled by the present disclosure allow a media content service to support different playback modes in the presence of variations in media content asset types and viewer device capabilities. The techniques enabled by the present disclosure further allow encoding media content with playback bitrates targeted for streaming playback mode and playback bitrates targeted for download playback mode, and managing manifest data to allow viewer devices to select between different playback bitrates for a particular playback mode with greater precision.