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Pre-roll advertisement playing method, terminal, and video server

  • US 10,271,083 B2
  • Filed: 07/10/2017
  • Issued: 04/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for playing pre-roll advertisements, applied to a terminal and comprising:

  • detecting a play operation of an offline video;

    in a first connection state, when detecting a video download operation, sending a pre-roll advertisement obtaining request to a video server;

    receiving at least one pre-roll advertisement index from the video server according to the pre-roll advertisement obtaining request;

    obtaining at least one pre-roll advertisement corresponding to the at least one pre-roll advertisement index, and storing the at least one pre-roll advertisement; and

    updating a list of locally stored pre-roll advertisements according to the at least one pre-roll advertisement index;

    determining a current network connection status of the terminal;

    when the terminal is in a second connection state, determining, among multiple pre-roll advertisements obtained by the terminal, a specified pre-roll advertisement corresponding to the offline video, comprising;

    when the terminal is in a network-unconnected state, obtaining a specified video index returned by the video server, wherein the specified video index is selected by the video server from the at least one pre-roll advertisement index; and

    determining a pre-roll advertisement corresponding to the specified video index as the specified pre-roll advertisement corresponding to the offline video; and

    playing the specified pre-roll advertisement in a process of playing the offline video.

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