Patent ID: 9426543
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving a first request to preconfigure a server for serving a stitched video; responsive to the first request, identifying a sequence of video segments to include in the stitched video; extracting, from video files corresponding to the video segments, video header blocks for the video segments; generating a merged video header block by merging the video header blocks together based on the sequence and on the lengths of video data blocks within the video files; storing the merged video header block as a header file; generating a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that includes or references information that identifies: each of the video files, the header file, the lengths, and offsets within the video files at which the video data blocks are found; responding to the first request with the URL; receiving, from a client device, one or more second requests directed to the URL; responsive to the one or more second requests, and based on the information included in or referenced by the URL: