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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Hulu, Llc, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
HULU, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/115 (2014.01); H04N 19/146 (2014.01); H04N 19/174 (2014.01); H04N 19/196 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/196 (2014.11); H04N 19/115 (2014.11); H04N 19/146 (2014.11); H04N 19/174 (2014.11);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a method receives a probability distribution of a likelihood that a user might view one or more tiles in one or more segments of a video. The video is encoded in different profiles that are associated with different bitrates. An available bandwidth is determined. Then, the method selects a profile for each tile in a segment of the video based on the available bandwidth and the probability distribution for the tiles and sends a request for a respective profile for each tile for playback of the segment of the video.