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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2012
Lyudmil Vladimirov Antonov, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Sherman Carter, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Honig Bear, Seattle, WA (US);
William Zachary Patrick Holt, Seattle, WA (US);
Lyudmil Vladimirov Antonov, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Sherman Carter, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Honig Bear, Seattle, WA (US);
William Zachary Patrick Holt, Seattle, WA (US);
Hulu, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a playlist for a video stream of video content for a client. The playlist is for portions of video content for the video stream. A traffic shaping service determines a set of rules for the playlist for a set of portions in the plurality of portions where each rule is associated with a network condition. For each rule, the method performs: dynamically allocating a port and setting a network condition to apply to the port according to the rule. During playback of the video content, the traffic shaping service receives a request for a portion from the client and determines a port associated with the request for the portion. The method then sends a traffic shaped portion through the determined port where the network condition is applied to the traffic shaped portion based on the network condition being set on the port.