Patent ID: 11889140
Assignee: HULU, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, that when executed, control a computer system to be operable for:
receiving a request for a video;
receiving a ranking of a plurality of content delivery networks for the request;
receiving historical scores for respective content delivery networks in the plurality of content delivery networks from rankings in historical playback sessions;
receiving global constraints for the plurality of content delivery networks, wherein the global constraints define an allocation for respective content delivery networks;
selecting a content delivery network using the global constraints, the ranking, and the historical scores, wherein a first score for the content delivery network is altered to a second score, and the second score is used in the selecting of the content delivery network; and
outputting the content delivery network that is selected for the request.