公开(公告)号：US10075513B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-11

申请号：US15613801

申请日：2017-06-05

Applicant: NETFLIX, INC.

Inventor： Neil D. Hunt ,  Stephan G. Betz

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/258 ,  G06F9/448 ,  G06F17/28 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/451

CPC classification number: H04L67/10 ,  G06F9/448 ,  G06F9/454 ,  G06F9/45533 ,  G06F17/289 ,  H04N21/25808 ,  H04N21/25891

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing a variation of digital content that is based on a client-specified context token. Localized digital assets, e.g., graphics resources, video resource, audio resources, and text string resources, are stored as a collection of records and are dynamically linked to a assemble a software system based on the client-specified context token to generate the variation of digital content. The client receives the assembled variation of the digital content including the localized digital assets specified by the client-provided context.

公开(公告)号：US20180220174A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15936378

申请日：2018-03-26

Applicant: NETFLIX, INC.

Inventor： Neil D. Hunt

IPC: H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/647 ,  H04N21/6377 ,  H04N21/6373 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/2385 ,  H04N21/2383 ,  H04N21/238 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N5/76

CPC classification number: H04N21/23655 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/238 ,  H04N21/2383 ,  H04N21/2385 ,  H04N21/2393 ,  H04N21/2402 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/6373 ,  H04N21/6377 ,  H04N21/64769 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for adapting playback bit rate in a content delivery system based on scene complexity of the video content as well as network conditions and other performance factors. A scene complexity map of the video content indicates the complexity levels of different scenes within the video content. Using the scene complexity map, a content player may download scenes of lower scene complexity levels from video streams encoded to lower bit rates to manage the bandwidth consumed to download the video content and allow for the downloading of scenes of higher complexity levels from video streams encoded to higher bit rates.

公开(公告)号：US09766772B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US14628815

申请日：2015-02-23

Applicant: NETFLIX, Inc.

Inventor： Neil D. Hunt

IPC: G06F3/048 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N5/44 ,  G06F3/0484

CPC classification number: G06F3/04812 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  H04N5/4403 ,  H04N21/42207 ,  H04N21/42224 ,  H04N2005/4407 ,  H04N2005/443

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for controlling the operations of a consumer electronic (CE) device. A system includes a display device, CE device, and a remote controller with a touchpad. The CE device is configured to output a context-specific user interface for display by the display device. The particular user interface varies based on the operational context of the CE device. The remote controller sends signals that are detected by the CE device and control operations performed by the CE device. More specifically, the remote controller is used as a handheld pointing device to select operations through interactions with the context-specific user interface. A user may apply gestures to the touchpad that are interpreted based on the context-specific user interface to control the CE device.

公开(公告)号：US08966014B2

公开(公告)日：2015-02-24

申请号：US13777241

申请日：2013-02-26

Applicant: NETFLIX, Inc.

Inventor： Anthony N. Park ,  Neil D. Hunt ,  Wei Wei

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L65/4069 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/60 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L69/14

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth techniques for a content player to stream a media file using multiple network connections. To stream the media file, the content player downloads metadata associated with a requested media file, establishes a network connection with multiple content servers (or multiple network connections with a single content server or both) and begins requesting portions of the media file. In response, the requested portions are transmitted to the content player. The content player may employ a predictive multi-connection scheduling approach to determine which network connection to use in downloading a given chunk.

Abstract translation: 本发明的实施例阐述了内容播放器使用多个网络连接流媒体文件的技术。 为了流媒体文件，内容播放器下载与请求的媒体文件相关联的元数据，建立与多个内容服务器的网络连接（或与单个内容服务器或两者的多个网络连接），并开始请求媒体文件的部分。 作为响应，所请求的部分被发送到内容播放器。 内容播放器可以采用预测多连接调度方法来确定在下载给定块时使用哪个网络连接。