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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:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2012
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Kevin Thomas Weston, Jr., Redmond, WA (US);
Parag Kumar Garg, Woodinville, WA (US);
Charles Guest Tritschler, Los Altos, CA (US);
Vincent G. Uttley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Seattle, WA (US);
James Allan Poore, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Scott Brenner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cody Bryce Meyer, Seattle, WA (US);
Quais Taraki, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods for automatically selecting a content provider for delivery of content for consumption by a user. Various selection data such as cost, historical delivery bitrate, and so forth are gathered and a weighting profile is applied to generate a total weight by content provider. The total weight by content provider may be used to select one content provider from another for delivery of a particular piece of content.