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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:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2021
Applicant:
Hulu, Llc, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Henke, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Isha Shah, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Aleksandar Zambelli, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
HULU, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/266 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26606 (2013.01);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a method receives a request for an instance of content and determines content metadata for the instance of content. A metric for concurrent playback sessions based on the content metadata is determined. The concurrent playback sessions are actively streaming content. The method evaluates the request to block or allow the request based on comparing the metric for concurrent playback sessions to a threshold for the concurrent playback sessions.