Patent Document ID: 9643093
Application ID: 14926432
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; a memory; a set of logics configured to control selective encoding for smooth streaming via adaptive bit rate streaming of automatically generated video game highlight clips; and an interface to connect the processor, the memory, and the set of logics; the set of logics comprising: a first logic configured to compute a predicted popularity of an automatically generated video game highlight clip using a weighted, adaptive function of: a property of a user whose action caused the automatically generated video game highlight clip to be generated; a property of a video game for which the automatically generated video game highlight clip was generated, or a property of the automatically generated video game highlight game clip; and a second logic that: upon determining that the predicted popularity is less than a popularity threshold, prepares the automatically generated video game highlight clip for progressive download by another computer as an electronic video recording and stores the electronic video recording in a content delivery network, and upon determining that the predicted popularity is greater than or equal to the popularity threshold, prepares the automatically generated video game highlight clip for smooth streaming via adaptive bit rate streaming as an electronic video recording and stores the electronic video recording in the content delivery network.