Patent ID: 8799943
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for manipulating a manifest, comprising: storing, by the server, one or more manifests in a list of manifests in a memory, the one or more manifests differing in a number of segments corresponding to one or more advertisement breaks of different lengths; receiving, by a server from a smart appliance, a request for a manifest having a first length of an advertisement break corresponding to a first number of segments corresponding to the advertisement break; attempting to identify, by the server, a manifest having a substantially matching length to the first length of the advertisement break and having a matching number of segments to the first number of segments corresponding to the advertisement break in the list of one or more manifests stored in the memory; when the server identifies a manifest in the list of the one or more manifests stored in the memory having the substantially matching length to the first length of the advertisement break and having the matching number of segments to the first number of segments corresponding to the advertisement break, when the server does not identify a manifest in the list of the one or more manifests stored in the memory having the substantially matching length to the first length of the advertisement break and having the matching number of segments to the first number of segments corresponding to the advertisement break,