Patent ID: 11936932
Assignee: MUX, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
at a second media server:
during the first time period, receiving a second set of requests for the video from a second set of video players; and
for each video player in the second set of video players:
in response to receiving a request, in the second set of requests, from the video player, serving the video to the video player; and

during the first time period:
for each video player in the second set of video players:
accessing, from the video player, a second set of playback data representing playback events occurring during playback of the video at the video player;
based on the second set of playback data, characterizing the playback as one of user playback and crawler playback; and
in response to characterizing the playback as user playback, incorporating the second set of playback data into the set of user playback data.