Patent ID: 9654815
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of preventing skipping advertisements in an adaptive bitrate stream, comprising: receiving an adaptive bitrate stream playlist at a client device from a server, said adaptive bitrate stream playlist listing chunk identifiers pointing to a plurality of media chunks; analyzing said adaptive bitrate stream playlist with said client device to find one or more advertising chunks within said plurality of media chunks; retrieving and playing back at least one of said plurality of media chunks with said client device according to said adaptive bitrate stream playlist; setting a no-trick-play flag at said client device during playback of said one or more advertising chunks; allowing trick-plays through and over media chunks when said no-trick-play flag is not set; and disallowing trick-plays through and over at least one media chunk when said no-trick-play flag is set, wherein disallowing trick-plays through and over at least one media chunk when said no-trick-play flag is set comprises: