Patent ID: 11936705
Assignee: MK SYSTEMS USA INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing alternative content in audio-video streams, said method comprising:
generating a manifest data structure containing a plurality of data entries identifying a plurality of content segments of an audio-video stream;
obtaining at least one alternative content indicator, each corresponding to and indicating one of said plurality of content segments as being an alternative content segment of one or more alternative content segments, wherein said one or more alternative content segments are a subset of said plurality of content segments corresponding to one or more portions of a program, wherein the one or more portions are of particular interest to an end user;
modifying said manifest data structure to remove at least one of said data entries from said manifest data structure, said at least one of said data entries identifying those of said plurality of content segments that are not indicated by said one of said alternative content indicators as being an alternative content segment so that those of said data entries identifying those of said plurality of content segments corresponding to said one or more portions of said program of particular interest to said end user are retained in said manifest data structure; and
upon receiving a request from a client device to view alternative content during streaming of at least one of said plurality of content segments of said audio-video stream, sending said modified manifest data structure to the client device to initiate streaming of at least one of the content segments present in an unmodified manifest data structure and retained in said modified manifest data structure.