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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:
Nov. 22, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Inventors:

William B. May, Jr., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Eric R. Klein, Plainview, NY (US);

William J. Zurat, South Orange, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments provide for methods, computer program products, and systems to improve media playback comprising receiving a variant stream, identifying respective maximum segment durations for a plurality of different types of client devices that will play media content contained in the variant stream, generating, using the variant stream, a respective playlist for each of the plurality of different types of client devices, wherein the respective playlists each contain different maximum segment durations, and delivering the respective playlists to at least one of the plurality of different types of client devices via a distribution network.


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