Patent ID: 11882322
Assignee: ROKU, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A computing device, comprising:
a storage device to store a replacement segment; and
at least one controller coupled to the storage device and configured to:
receive, from a content source device, a first segment of a linear sequence of content segments, wherein the first segment includes an ending frame adjacent to a start frame of a second segment of the linear sequence of content segments;
provide the first segment to a display device;
based on a determination that the replacement segment to replace the second segment is unavailable in the storage device, provide one or more additional copies of the ending frame of the first segment to the display device so that no frame of the second segment is provided to the display device while waiting for the replacement segment to be fetched from a network server and become available in the storage device; and
once the replacement segment becomes available in the storage device, provide the replacement segment to the display device so that the first segment, one or more additional copies of the ending frame of the first segment, and the replacement segment are provided in a sequence without frames of the second segment to the display device.