Patent ID: 11930066
Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system to deliver media content comprising:
a transcoder including first machine readable instructions and a first processor, the first processor configured to execute the first machine readable instructions to:
generate multiple transcoded media output streams from an input linear media stream, the transcoded media output streams of the multiple transcoded media output streams having different bit rates;
fragment the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, the chunks to include respective display times;
identify a program boundary within a particular chunk of the chunks, wherein the program boundary includes a boundary between a first program and a second program;
subdivide the particular chunk into a first chunk and a second chunk based on the identifying the program boundary within the particular chunk; and
insert a description of the program boundary into a metadata file; and

a media player including second machine readable instructions and a second processor, the second processor configured to execute the second machine readable instructions to:
render media segments based on the chunks; and
apply content restriction to one or more media segments based on the metadata file.