18983842. DELIVERY AND PLAYBACK OF CONTENT (Comcast Cable Communications, LLC)
DELIVERY AND PLAYBACK OF CONTENT
Organization Name
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
Inventor(s)
Alexander Giladi of Denver CO US
Weidong Mao of West Windsor NJ US
DELIVERY AND PLAYBACK OF CONTENT
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18983842 titled 'DELIVERY AND PLAYBACK OF CONTENT
Original Abstract Submitted
An encoder may determine one or more encoding characteristics associated with a content segment of a content asset. The one or more encoding characteristics may comprise an estimated bitrate required for transmission of the content segment over a network. The one or more encoding characteristics associated with the content segment may be inserted into a portion of an other content segment, such as into a header of the other content segment. The content segment and the other content segment may be configured for linear transmission, such as using adaptive bitrate streaming. When the other content segment is received at a playback device prior to the content segment, the playback device may use the one or more encoding characteristics of the content segment embedded in the header of the other content segment to determine one or more playback characteristics of the content segment.