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Proxy for facilitating streaming of media from server to client

  • US 9,584,557 B2
  • Filed: 03/12/2014
  • Issued: 02/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of preparing streaming media content to be rendered by a media player, the method comprising:

  • receiving a request to receive a stream of media content;

    forwarding the request over a network to content server;

    in response to the request, receiving over the network a rolling manifest file that includes a sequence of media segment URLs indicating an ordering of the media segments that create a representation of a portion of the media content stream, the media segment URLs following a predefined naming convention that allows media segment URLs occurring prior to and subsequent to the media segment URLs included in the manifest file to be predicted;

    modifying the manifest file by inserting at least one additional media segment URL into the manifest file comprising a private tag identifying an amount of content before or after the media segment URLs, the at least one additional media segment URL being sequentially located before or after the media segment URLs included in the manifest file;

    sending the modified manifest file to the media player; and

    predicting the at least one additional media segment URL using the predefined naming convention by using the private tag to describe the number of seconds of content available from the server before or after the media segment URLs.

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