Thin-cloud system for live streaming content
US11140422B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 25, 2019 |
| Grant date | Oct 5, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/4781
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A thin-cloud system for distributing content, for example, live streaming video content, from a broadcaster to a viewer is provided herein. The computing devices of the broadcaster can provide the multi-bitrate transcoding, of the two or more bitstreams, sent to a file server, which alleviates the need for the file server to encode the streams for a viewer. These multiple streams are received by a file server for provision to one or more viewers. The viewers can receive the streams at one of the two or more bitrates. If the viewer receives the content at a lower bitrate, the viewers can employ a machine learning (ML) co-processor that can operate as an accelerator to improve the inbound content, if that content is provided at a lower bitrate, and thus, a lower resolution. The file server can train and provide the ML models used for the acceleration.
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