Patent ID: 9088634
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for dynamic transcoding of media at the network edge, said method comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, enabling a customer to provide media content to an input store of a service provider, at least a portion of the media content being encoded using a first media format; storing a copy of the media content at a server residing in a content delivery network (CDN) point-of-presence (POP); receiving a request for the media content from a client device to the server in the CDN POP; inspecting the request and determining a device type associated with the client device based at least in part on information contained in the request, the device type being associated with a second media format; transcoding at least a portion of the media content at the server in the CDN POP from the first media format into the second media format and applying a watermark to the media content, the transcoding having access to one or more workflows, the one or more workflows including a first workflow for applying the watermark and a separate second workflow for at least one of providing multi-bitrate or adding audio to the media content; transmitting, to the client device, the media content that has been transcoded into the second media format; causing an access control to be applied to the media content based at least upon the watermark applied to the media content; determining that the client device has discontinued downloading the media content; and terminating the transcoding or downloading at the CDN POP.