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Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

May. 31, 2019
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/238 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/2387 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/2747 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2387 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/2747 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01);
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.


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