Patent ID: 9549000
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of preparing media content to be streamed to a client, the method comprising: dividing, at a server, a stream of the media content into multiple media segments or chunks, each of the multiple media segments or chunks to be stored as an individual file in a memory in a transfer protocol compliant format; generating a top-level manifest file having a plurality of Universal Resource Locators (URLs), the plurality of URLs indicating an ordering of the multiple media segments or chunks to recreate the stream of media content; and responsive to a client request received over a network to present the media content in a trick play mode of operation, obtaining a modified manifest file based on the top-level manifest file, the modified manifest file comprising a subset of the plurality of URLs indicating an ordering of media segments or chunks that create a representation of the stream of media content presentable in the trick play mode of operation while excluding a number of the multiple media segments or chunks from the ordering.