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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Ryan Farris, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jimmy George, Portland, OR (US);
Jesse Robert Hepburn, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Benjamin Schwartz, Baltimore, MD (US);
Mark DeSpain, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mathew P. Jack, Portland, OR (US);
Marcin Manek, Portland, OR (US);
Prakash Bhasker, Portland, OR (US);
Saurav Sengupta, Beaverton, OR (US);
Matei Mitaru Berceanu, Portland, OR (US);
Akhil Ramachandran, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Colleen Marie Toth, Portland, OR (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques for distributed storage of files that represent video content across different storage tiers to reduce the amount of computing resources used to store the files, while maintaining a low latency when responding to user requests to stream the video content. Video streaming services support the streaming of video content at different resolutions to support various user devices and/or user preferences. To provide streaming of a particular video content item at different resolutions, the video streaming services may store multiple files that represent the video content item for the different resolutions and stream at different bitrates to user devices. The techniques described herein include storing files configured to stream a video content item at different bitrates (and for different display resolutions) in a tiered storage structure to reduce the amount of computing resources taken to store the files.