Patent ID: 9661106
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: by a host computing server, receiving from a client computing device, a request to upload a multimedia file from the client computing device to a service; by the host computing server, determining a target encoding format based in part on information received associated with the request; by the host computing server, identifying one or more third-party transcoding servers, wherein the transcoding servers are configured to receive and transcode multimedia files from client computing devices to the target encoding format and store the transcoded multimedia files; by the host computing server, sending to the client computing device, a reply that comprises addresses of the third-party transcoding servers and job configuration information, wherein the job configuration information specifies one or more upload policies and comprises an access token enabling the client computing device to access the transcoding servers; and by the host computing server, receiving from the client computing device a job response, the job response previously sent from a first one of the transcoding servers to the client computing device, wherein: