Patent ID: 9473812
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computer systems: receiving a request identifying a requested media file; in response to receiving the request, accessing the requested media file, the requested media file comprising media content in a first format; begin transcoding the media content from the first format to a second format and generating an associated auxiliary file comprising a plurality of content records in the second format; transmitting the first portion of the media content in the second format to a requesting client utilizing the auxiliary file before the transcoding of the media content of the requested media file is complete; wherein the auxiliary file comprises the plurality of content records, each of the content records being associated with a portion of the media content in the second format and indicating a location of the associated portion of the media content in the second format; and wherein each of the content records comprises dropped-content information for an associated portion of the media content, the dropped-content information indicating an amount of content dropped during transcoding.