Patent ID: 9661045
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of operating a computing device with limited transcoding resources to represent a single media stream with different bit rates in a network to provide a full spectrum of available adaptive bitrate for the media stream by the computing device, the method comprising: producing, at a first computing device, a manifest file for a given media stream, the manifest file comprising a plurality of profiles for the given media stream that references two or more available bit rate variants of the given media stream that is available to be created by a transcoder unit of the first computing device, wherein each of the plurality of profiles includes i) a first available bit rate value of the given media stream and a URL associated with the given media stream and ii) a second bit rate value of the given media stream and the URL associated with the given media stream, wherein the produced manifest file is provided to a client computing device; in response to receiving a first request, for the given media stream, associated with one of the plurality of profiles, transcoding, at the first computing device, the given media stream at a first selected bit rate associated with the first request; and in response to receiving a second request, for the given media stream, associated with a new selected bit rate from one of the plurality of profiles, transcoding, at the first computing device, the given media stream at the new bit rate associated with the second request.