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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2017
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventor:
Srinath V. Ramaswamy, East Windsor, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/61 (2022.01); H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/2362 (2011.01); H04N 21/2365 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/6373 (2011.01); H04N 21/6377 (2011.01); H04N 21/6547 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/61 (2022.05); H04L 65/75 (2022.05); H04N 21/23418 (2013.01); H04N 21/2355 (2013.01); H04N 21/2358 (2013.01); H04N 21/6373 (2013.01); H04N 21/6377 (2013.01); H04N 21/6547 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2362 (2013.01); H04N 21/23655 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/2408 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method of determining complexities and/or quality of video segments of a video program and providing data indicating the quality of video segments to user devices. Such data may be included in a manifest file of the video program. Based on the data indicating the complexities and/or quality of video segments, a user device or the system may choose a bitrate version for each video segment that minimizes network bandwidth usage while providing sufficient video quality.