Patent ID: 9635419
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a plurality of packets indicating transmission of a plurality of video content items; identifying, by the system, the plurality of video content items and an associated transfer protocol indicator for each video content item from the plurality of packets; determining, by the system, a popularity level associated with each video content item of the plurality of video content items; comparing, by the system, for each video content item of the plurality of video content items, the popularity level to a popularity threshold; selecting, by the system, a first subset of video content items in the plurality of video content items based on the transfer protocol indicator for each video content item; and presenting, by the system, a first portion of a video content item without presenting a second portion of the video content item, wherein the video content item is in the first subset of video content items, and wherein presenting the first portion of the video content item is responsive to the popularity level exceeding the popularity threshold.