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Switching media streams in a client

  • US 10,601,884 B2
  • Filed: 08/01/2018
  • Issued: 03/24/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for switching media streams of a video, said method comprising:

  • playing, by a processor, a first media stream of the video in a SHOW mode in a client system as the first media stream is being received from a content providing system;

    said processor switching from playing the first media stream to playing a second media stream of the video in the SHOW mode as the second media stream is being received from the content providing system, said switching preserving video content continuity of the video, said second media stream differing from the first media stream with respect to a differentiating characteristic, said switching comprising pausing said playing the first media stream, wherein timecodes identifying relative time within the video are distributed in the first media stream and the second media stream, and wherein a pausing rank is associated with each timecode in the first and second media streams and denotes a relative rank to pausing said playing the first media stream; and

    said processor constraining said pausing to occur at a timecode in the first media stream at which the associated pausing rank is not less than a predesignated pausing rank threshold.

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