Patent ID: 9578354
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, implemented by a computing system programmed to perform the following, comprising: receiving source media content at the computing system; slicing the source media content into temporal slices of media content at a first location by the computing system, wherein the slicing comprises creating overlapping temporal slices by: sending each slice file, with an overlapping temporal slice, over a network to a remote server at a second location at which each temporal slice, corresponding to the overlapping temporal slice, is to be encoded at a plurality of quality levels to create multiple copies of each of the temporal slices, wherein each of at least some of the multiple copies is encoded at a different one of the plurality of quality levels, wherein the encoding of the temporal slices is decoupled from the slicing of the source media content.