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

US9537920B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC · US

Inventors

Brian J. Tarbox · Littleton, US
Erik Elstermann · Carlsbad, US
Barry P. Falvo · Eagleville, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 15, 2013
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 14, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N21/8543
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a comprising generating a top level manifest file for a media asset or stream that includes program event information, providing the top level manifest file and corresponding element manifest files to a real-time adaptive bitrate (“ABR”) packager, and receiving a request for a media-segment file from a client, wherein the ABR packager is configured to interpret the program event information, and wherein the ABR packager is configured to restrict trick-play operations if a program event is detected in a requested media-segment file and restriction criteria are met.

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