Patent ID: 9386331
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server, a plurality of requests from client devices to access a live streaming media content item for playback at the client devices, the client devices including a designated client device, each of the client devices having associated therewith device characteristic information that describes one or more characteristics of the client device; transmitting a first portion of the live streaming media content item encoded in a first encoding format to the designated client device; identifying a device characteristic that describes a portion of the client devices, the portion of the client devices meeting a threshold value for creating a media content encoding item, the portion of the client devices including the designated client device; transcoding a media content source item corresponding to the requested live streaming media content item to create a live streaming media content encoding item encoded in a second encoding format, the live streaming media content encoding item being encoded to match the identified device characteristic; and transmitting a second portion of the live streaming media content item encoded in the second encoding format to the designated client device, the second portion of the live streaming media including the live streaming media content encoding item.