Patent ID: 8484358
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting a video request, the method comprising: monitoring communications on a network to detect sessions between a client device and a server by intercepting requests originating from the client device; determining if a request originating from the client device is associated with a session for retrieving a video from the server based on information associated with the request; determining to transcode the video based on properties of the client device; and replacing, in response to the video being identified for transcoding, the detected video session between the client device and the server with a new session at an optimizer, the optimizer retrieving the video from the server and transcoding the video for the client device, wherein replacing the detected video session further comprises redirecting the request originating from the client device to an optimizer by generating a uniform resource locator (URL) with a redirect request to the optimizer for establishing the new session.