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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2013
Motorola Mobility Llc, Libertyville, IL (US);
Brian J. Tarbox, Littleton, MA (US);
Erik J. Elstermann, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Barry P. Falvo, Eagleville, PA (US);
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a comprising generating a top level manifest file for a media asset or stream that includes program event information, providing the top level manifest file and corresponding element manifest files to a real-time adaptive bitrate ('ABR') packager, and receiving a request for a media-segment file from a client, wherein the ABR packager is configured to interpret the program event information, and wherein the ABR packager is configured to restrict trick-play operations if a program event is detected in a requested media-segment file and restriction criteria are met.