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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ali C. Begen, London, CA;
Scott C. Labrozzi, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/601 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving media from an input; gathering metadata from a plurality of media stream representations that are provided by the input; creating one or more metadata segments corresponding to the plurality of media stream representations in order to generate a metadata track; and making at least a portion of the metadata track available to a client device, where the portion of the metadata track is provided separate from a manifest file.