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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Panopto, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Hiroshi Ohno, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Burns, Seattle, WA (US);
Timothy R. Sullivan, Seattle, WA (US);
Zac Rumford, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Panopto, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/234345 (2013.01); H04N 21/234363 (2013.01); H04N 21/845 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for providing streaming video to a client computer. A system includes a broadcast sender configured to provide a plurality of video segments at each of a plurality of quality levels as segment-quality units. A load balancer is configured to transmit the segment-quality units to one of a plurality of upload servers. The upload servers are configured to update a record of received segment-quality units, and to generate updates for a streaming video manifest corresponding to the streaming video.