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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
Pluto Inc., West Hollywood, CA (US);
Spencer Shanson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pavlo Kalmykov Vasilievich, Kharkov, UA;
Jonathan Michael Jesperson, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Adrian Chiu, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Bryan Randall Fish, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Jonathan Jovan Gwiazda, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Sonia Priya Hashim, Saratoga, CA (US);
Pluto Inc., West Hollywood, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are configured to manage streaming video content. A first time length specification for a content pod is accessed. If a determination is made that a response to a request for ancillary content of a duration corresponding to the first time length of the content pod includes ancillary content of insufficient duration to populate the first time length of the content pod, the content pod time length is reduced. Ancillary content items associated with the response to the request are streamed to a user device as part of a streaming channel comprising primary content having scheduled start times. A primary content item, having a scheduled start time, is streamed to the user device after the items of ancillary content, and earlier than the scheduled start time of the item of primary content.