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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
May. 26, 2020
Philo, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Satheesh Velmurugan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thane Frivold, Redwood City, CA (US);
Seth Madison, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aleksey Pesterev, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Michael Thompson, Stow, MA (US);
Benjamin Avery Chambers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philo, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A client electronic device to provide custom functionality for video content playback. The client electronic device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the client electronic device to receive a streaming manifest file and a first auxiliary manifest file, where the streaming manifest file includes references to video segments of a video content, where the first auxiliary manifest file includes timed metadata associated with the video content, where the streaming manifest file and the first auxiliary manifest file refer to a same timeline, provide the streaming manifest file to a core playback module to play the video content according to the streaming manifest file, and provide custom functionality using the timed metadata included in the first auxiliary manifest file that replaces or augments functionality provided by the core playback module.