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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Anthony J. Braskich, Palatine, IL (US);
Stephen P. Emeott, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);
Alfonso Martinez Smith, Algonquin, IL (US);
Anthony J. Braskich, Palatine, IL (US);
Stephen P. Emeott, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);
Alfonso Martinez Smith, Algonquin, IL (US);
GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method () and apparatus () determine a multimedia representation for a multimedia asset. The method includes receiving () a multimedia asset request for a multimedia asset at a multimedia representation broker (). The multimedia asset request is received from a specific client device (). The multimedia asset request includes client device information about the specific client device (). The method determines (), at the multimedia representation broker (), a multimedia representation for use in providing the multimedia asset to the specific client device () based on the client device information and based on media representations appropriate for a client device context of the specific client device (). The method outputs () multimedia representation information corresponding to the multimedia asset for the specific client device () based on the determined multimedia representation.