Patent ID: 11949929
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A packager that receives a bitstream encoding a multimedia presentation, the packager having a processing device configured to:
segment the bitstream into a plurality of chunks, and associate each chunk with a respectively different first network address by which each chunk may be accessed by a decoding device;
sequentially create a plurality of first manifests that each include a respectively different subset of the first network addresses associated with the chunks segmented by the packager;
associate each first manifest with a respectively different second network address; and
populate a second manifest with the respectively different second network addresses, where the second manifest is capable of retaining a limited number of the second network addresses; where
once the second manifest is fully populated, the packager is configured to remove the oldest second address remaining in the second manifest whenever a newest second address is added to the second manifest.