Media Content Redirection
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Abstract
A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user'"'"'s account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
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21 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a computing device and from a first device, a first request to direct multimedia content to a second device, wherein the first request comprises a resource address associated with the multimedia content; in response to determining that a second request for the multimedia content at the second device was received within a threshold amount of time after the first request; initiating retrieval, by the computing device and from the resource address, of a subset of segments of the multimedia content; receiving, by the computing device, the subset of segments of the multimedia content; transcoding, by the computing device and based on characteristics of the second device, the subset of segments of the multimedia content; and sending, to the second device and before receiving and transcoding an entirety of the multimedia content, the subset of segments of the multimedia content. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computing device comprising:
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one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to; receive, from a first device, a first request to direct multimedia content to a second device, wherein the first request comprises a resource address associated with the multimedia content; in response to determining that a second request for the multimedia content at the second device was received within a threshold amount of time after the first request; initiate retrieval, from the resource address, of a subset of segments of the multimedia content; receive, by the computing device, the subset of segments of the multimedia content; transcode, based on characteristics of the second device, the subset of segments of the multimedia content; and send, to the second device and before receiving and transcoding an entirety of the multimedia content, the subset of segments of the multimedia content. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system comprising:
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a first device comprising; one or more processors; and memory storing first instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the first device, cause the first device to; send, to a computing device, a first request to direct multimedia content to a second device, wherein the first request comprises a resource address associated with the multimedia content; the second device, wherein the second device comprises; one or more processors; and memory storing second instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the second device, cause the second device to; receive, from the computing device, an indication of the multimedia content; send, to the computing device and within a threshold amount of time after the first request, a second request for the multimedia content; receive, from the computing device, a subset of segments of the multimedia content; and the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises; one or more processors; and memory storing third instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to; receive, from the first device, the first request to direct the multimedia content to the second device; in response to determining that the second request was received within the threshold amount of time after the first request; initiate retrieval, from the resource address, of the subset of segments of the multimedia content; receive, by the computing device, the subset of segments of the multimedia content; transcode, based on characteristics of the second device, the subset of segments of the multimedia content; and send, to the second device and before receiving and transcoding an entirety of the multimedia content, the subset of segments of the multimedia content. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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