Patent ID: 9710469
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: providing, to a first device, at least a portion of a media file, wherein the media file comprises a first plurality of data fragments and a second plurality of data fragments; determining that a user stopped or paused consumption of the media file on the first device; determining a resume point indicating a fragment of the second plurality of fragments at which the user is predicted to resume consumption of the media file on a second device; and generating a manifest file for resuming consumption of the media file at the resume point, wherein the manifest file comprises information for playback of the second plurality of data fragments on the second device without requesting access to the first plurality of data fragments by the second device, wherein generating the manifest file for resuming consumption of the media file at the resume point comprises re-indexing the second plurality of data fragments such that the second plurality of data fragments are indexed as a beginning of the media file instead of the first plurality of data fragments.