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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Igor Fradlis, Woodmere, NY (US);
Charles Weill, New York, NY (US);
Christopher Dinn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26233 (2013.01); H04N 21/23424 (2013.01); H04N 21/251 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure discusses systems and methods to mitigate traffic spikes in retrieving secondary content items for display in concurrently streamed content streams. The system can pre-fetch secondary content items for the upcoming secondary content slots. To retrieve an appropriate content item, the system can predict the length of the secondary content slot. The system can use the predicted length of the secondary content slot to distribute the traffic spike over a larger span of time to mitigate the spike.