18377269. SELECTIVE JUST-IN-TIME TRANSCODING (MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC)
SELECTIVE JUST-IN-TIME TRANSCODING
Organization Name
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Inventor(s)
Nicholas Tegan Heckman of Kirkland WA US
Ivan Romashka of Seattle WA US
Steven Craig Peterson of Bloomington MN US
SELECTIVE JUST-IN-TIME TRANSCODING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18377269 titled 'SELECTIVE JUST-IN-TIME TRANSCODING
Original Abstract Submitted
A media server uses selective just-in-time (âJITâ) transcoding of media such as video. For example, the media server determines a measure of complexity of a given segment of a given media sequence. The given segment has been encoded at a base bit rate. The media server evaluates a complexity condition for the given segment. As part of evaluating the complexity condition, the media server compares the measure of complexity to a complexity threshold. Based at least in part on whether the complexity condition is satisfied, the media server selects between use of preemptive transcoding and use of JIT transcoding for the given segment at a given target bit rate. In this way, the media server can selectively incur the cost of preemptive transcoding operations for the given segment if JIT transcoding would likely introduce unacceptable delay, and the media server can otherwise use JIT transcoding operations for the given segment.