公开(公告)号：US20200374587A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16990715

申请日：2020-08-11

Applicant: HULU, LLC

Inventor： Dallas Mahrt ,  Brandon Lonac ,  Hank Hwang ,  Stephen Brown ,  William Daly ,  Yingan Wang

IPC: H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/266 ,  H04N21/658

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a plurality of distribution areas. A distribution area is defined by one or more geographic primitives and associated with a distribution area identifier. Also, a geographic primitive is defined by one or more location identifiers. The method stores distribution area identifiers for the plurality of distribution areas in a first data structure. Information for media content is received and the method generates a content bundle for the media content based on the information for the media content. The content bundle is associated with a distribution area identifier and metadata that describes characteristics of the media content. The content bundle is stored in a second data structure.

公开(公告)号：US10425691B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-24

申请号：US15399699

申请日：2017-01-05

Applicant: HULU, LLC

Inventor： Ling Lau ,  Brandon Lonac ,  Dallas Stephan Mahrt ,  Karthik Prasanna ,  Yingan Wang ,  Andres Rangel

IPC: H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/437 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/8355

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method receives information for a video entity where a video delivery system delivers the video entity as a plurality of video assets using different video delivery methods. The method generates bundles for the video assets. Also, dependencies are generated between bundles when two bundles include control data parameters that are the same. The method then stores control data parameters for the bundles for the plurality of video assets based on the dependencies. A second bundle is stored with the dependency on a first bundle and the second bundle includes a second set of control data parameters for the second bundle that is different from the first set of control data parameters included in the first bundle. When the second bundle is selected, the method accesses the first set of control data parameters and the second set of control data parameters for the second bundle.