Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing latency in presenting digital videos
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Application No.: US15240348Application Date: 2016-08-18
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Publication No.: US09961381B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Scott Tadashi Davies , Justin Lewis
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04N21/2343
- IPC: H04N21/2343 ; H04L29/08 ; H04N21/61 ; H04N21/438 ; H04N21/433 ; H04N21/231

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing latency in presenting digital videos. In one aspect, a system includes a front-end server that provides videos and local servers that each include a cache for storing videos that have been partially presented at client devices located in a same geographic location as the local server. The system includes a back-end server that selects a video in response to a content request received from a client device located in the same geographic location as a local server. The back-end server provides, to the client device, at least a portion of the video and determines that less than all of the video was presented at the client device. The back-end server reduces latency in presenting additional portions of the video at the client device by storing the video in the cache of the local server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180054635A1 REDUCING LATENCY IN PRESENTING DIGITAL VIDEOS Public/Granted day:2018-02-22
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