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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Krishna Prasad Panje, Bangalore, IN;
William P. Franks, San Diego, CA (US);
Praveen N. Moorthy, San Diego, CA (US);
Paul Moroney, La Jolla, CA (US);
Murali Sahasranaman, Bangalore, IN;
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
A method for preparing streaming media content to be rendered by a media player employs a proxy for the media player. The proxy sends a request over a network to a content server. In response, a rolling manifest file is received by the proxy. The manifest file includes a sequence of media segment URLs indicating an ordering of the media segments that create a representation of a portion of the content stream. The URLs follow a predefined naming convention that allows URLs occurring prior to and subsequent to the URLs included in the manifest file to be predicted. The proxy predicts additional URLs that occur prior to and/or subsequent to the URLs included in the manifest file. The manifest file is modified by inserting the additional media segment URLs into the manifest file. The additional URLs are sequentially located before or after the URLs included in the manifest file.