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Enforcement of trick-play disablement in adaptive bit rate video content delivery

  • US 9,537,920 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2013
  • Issued: 01/03/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2012
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • generating a top level manifest file for a media asset, the top level manifest file comprising program event information indicating whether the media asset is to be presented with supplemental content;

    providing the top level manifest file to a real-time adaptive bitrate (“

    ABR”

    ) packager; and

    receiving, from a client, a request for a media-segment file corresponding to the media asset for consumption at the client;

    wherein the ABR packager is to interpret the program event information for the requested media-segment file to determine whether the program event information indicates that the media asset is to be presented with the supplemental content; and

    wherein the ABR packager is further to restrict trick-play operations if the program event information of the requested media-segment file indicates that the media asset is to be presented with the supplemental content and restriction criteria are met.

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