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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2023
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Harald Kadaroesman, New York, NY (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An enhanced server-side Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) of source content. The ABR switching logic is located in association with a server, and this logic also receives telemetry data as measured by the client. The client receives a single manifest that comprises a set of encoded entries each associated with a segment of the source content and comprising a first portion encoding, as a set of options, each of the multiple bitrates, and a second portion that, for each of the multiple bitrate options, encodes a size of the segment associated therewith. In operation, the client media player makes a request for a portion of the source content, and that request includes one of the encoded entries. In response, the server-side ABR switching logic determines whether to switch delivery of the source content from an existing first bitrate to a second bitrate. If so, the requested portion is delivered to the client at the second bitrate.