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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Activevideo Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bert Visscher, Hilversum, NL;

Gerrit Hiddink, Amersfoort, NL;

Maarten Hoeben, Amersfoort, NL;

Assignee:

Active Video Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2389 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/236 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/637 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23892 (2013.01); H04N 21/234 (2013.01); H04N 21/23406 (2013.01); H04N 21/23614 (2013.01); H04N 21/234309 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/44 (2013.01); H04N 21/44004 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4821 (2013.01); H04N 21/637 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01);
Abstract

A client device receives, from a server, first content directed to a first buffer in the client device and second content directed to a second buffer in the client device. The client device buffers the first content in the first buffer and buffers the second content in the second buffer. At least a portion of the second content is buffered in the second buffer substantially simultaneously with buffering the first content in the first buffer. The client device receives a command from a virtual set-top application, running on the server, that corresponds to the client device. The client device runs a virtual set-top local client that receives the command from the virtual set-top application and selects the first buffer as a content source. The selecting is performed in accordance with the command. The client device provides the selected content for display.


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