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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tristan Schmelcher, Sammamish, WA (US);
William Cyr, Boston, MA (US);
Thomas DeWeese, Boxborough, MA (US);
Nils Krahnstoever, Brookline, MA (US);
Matthew Carson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pawel Jurczyk, Newton, MA (US);
Thomas Dinger, Waltham, MA (US);
Jeffrey Calow, Arlington, MA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and media for delivering manifestless streaming media content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from a user device, a request for a URL corresponding to a format of a live stream that is provided in a plurality of formats, wherein the live stream comprises a plurality of segments for each of the plurality of formats and wherein each segment of the plurality of segments comprises a respective sequence number; resolving the request to a specific segment of the live stream based on the URL, wherein the resolving comprises: identifying the format of the live stream associated with the request from the plurality of formats based on the URL; identifying a sequence number associated with the request based on the URL; and identifying a segment of the plurality of segments corresponding to the identified format and having a sequence number matching the identified sequence number; loading a segment file corresponding to the specific segment; and returning the segment file to the user device in a response to the request.