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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Kiswe Mobile Inc., Bethesda, MD (US);
Francis X. Zane, New Providence, NJ (US);
Thomas J. Janiszewski, Andover, NJ (US);
Celia H. Lee, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Christopher Boraski, Skillman, NJ (US);
Maxim Campolo, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Yung-Lung Ho, Bethesda, MD (US);
Kiswe Mobile Inc., Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A media player or other type of client device is configured to obtain a plurality of playlists for a given item of media content from one or more servers over a network. The playlists comprise at least a sliding-window playlist and an on-demand playlist for the given item of media content with each such playlist identifying a plurality of media segments of the given item of media content. The client device comprises a playback module configured to play back portions of the given item of media content utilizing respective ones of the sliding-window and on-demand playlists. A navigation state machine controls switching of the playback module between playback of media segments from the sliding-window playlist and playback of media segments from the on-demand playlist responsive to user navigation within a timeline of the given item of media content using one or more navigational controls.