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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2011
James H. Wood, Seattle, WA (US);
James Marvin Freeman, Ii, Seattle, WA (US);
Wesley Shawn Davis, Seattle, WA (US);
Jinesh U. Vora, Issaquah, WA (US);
James H. Wood, Seattle, WA (US);
James Marvin Freeman, II, Seattle, WA (US);
Wesley Shawn Davis, Seattle, WA (US);
Jinesh U. Vora, Issaquah, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Embodiments may include the generation and use of content source rankings for improving playback quality of content streams. In embodiments, a merchant system may collect and aggregate multiple quality metrics for different content streams that various content sources provide to various clients. The merchant system may utilize the quality metrics to generate rankings of content sources for clients. In some cases, a client itself may generate a ranking of content sources for use in the selection of content sources. The merchant system may provide such rankings to clients to improve the content stream playback experience on the client. For instance, at content acquisition time, a client may request a content stream from a content resource ranked highest on a content source ranking provided by the merchant. If the content stream degrades, the client may source subsequent portions of the content stream from another highly ranked content source of the ranking.