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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Andrew William Walker, London, GB;

Richard Downey, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/654 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/854 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/654 (2013.01); H04N 21/8173 (2013.01); H04N 21/854 (2013.01);
Abstract

A content encoding system for generating content to be output to a client device, the system comprising a content obtaining unit operable to obtain video content for display at the client device, an asset determining unit operable to determine one or more assets to be associated with the display of the video content at the client device, an asset package identifying unit operable to identify one or more asset packages comprising respective ones of the determined assets, and determining one or more asset package identifiers associated with those packages, and an encoding unit operable to generate an encoded stream comprising the video content and the one or more asset package identifiers.


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