Commercials on mobile devices
AssigneePenthera Partners, Inc.
InventorsAdam L. Berger, Joshua Pressnell, Richard David Jackson
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Abstract
A method including: detecting a request for a first part of a video; detecting a request for a second part of the video, wherein the video has a video timeline and the second part of the video immediately follows the first part of the video in the video timeline; after detecting the request for the first part of the video and prior to detecting the request for the second part of the video, transmitting a request for a third part of the video, wherein the third part of the video follows the second part of the video in the video timeline; receiving the requested third part of the video; and storing the received third part of the video.
Claims10
A method for playing a media item from a local storage unit of a player device, the method comprising:
- storing the media item on the local storage unit of the player device;
- storing a first set of ads on the local storage unit of the player device;
- after storing the media items and the first set of ads, detecting a request to play the media items;
- and
- in response to detecting the request to play the media item:
- performing a process for obtaining from a remote server a set of ad URLs, and
- initiating playing the media item from the local storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.