Delivering content in multiple formats
AssigneeTiVo Inc.
InventorsDanial E. Holden, Austin J. Vrbas
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Abstract
Content may be received at an edge location in one format, but delivered to a terminal on an access network in another format. The received content may be transcoded at the edge location. The transcoded content may be stored, or immediately delivered. The transcoded content may be fragmented prior to storage. Multiple copies of the transcoded content may be maintained in multiple formats. These formats may be aligned with one another such that delivery of the content can include delivering portions of the content in one format and other portions of the content in another format.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- transmitting, by a server to a terminal, a first portion of a content item using a network link, wherein the first portion of the content item is transmitted in a first format;
- determining a current capacity of the network link;
- identifying a second portion of the content item;
- determining, based on a type of a scene depicted by the second portion of the content item, a bandwidth requirement for transmitting the second portion of the content item using the network link;
- determining, based on the bandwidth requirement associated with the type of the second portion of the content item and based on the current capacity of the network link, to transmit the second portion of the content item in a second format;
- and
- transmitting, by the server to the terminal, the second portion of the content item in the second format.
A computer-implemented system, comprising:
- a server;
- control circuitry configured to:
- transmit, by the server to a terminal, a first portion of a content item using a network link, wherein the first portion of the content item is transmitted in a first format;
- determine a current capacity of the network link;
- identify a second portion of the content item;
- determine, based on a type of a scene depicted by the second portion of the content item, a bandwidth requirement for transmitting the second portion of the content item using the network link;
- determine, based on the bandwidth requirement associated with the type of the second portion of the content item and based on the current capacity of the network link, to transmit the second portion of the content item in a second format;
- and
- transmit, by the server to the terminal, the second portion of the content item in the second format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.