Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140114990 | BUFFER ORDERING BASED ON CONTENT ACCESS TRACKING - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to buffering portions of a digital content item in different orders for different users. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of providing a buffer ordering for a digital content item. The method includes tracking content access information for each user of a plurality of users, the content access information for each user comprising information regarding how content portions of each of one or more digital content items were accessed by the user. The method further comprises providing a different buffer ordering for a first user of a selected digital content item than for a second user based upon the content access information. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115096 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT BASED ON CONTENT ACCESS TRACKING - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to generating digital content recommendations for a user based upon how the user accesses the assets of a digital content item. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method including receiving from a remote computing device content access information regarding an order in which content portions of a selected digital content item were accessed by the user, and, storing the content access information. The method further includes comparing the content access information for the user to content access information for other users that consumed the selected digital content item to determine other users with similar content access patterns, and sending digital content recommendations to the user based upon content consumption information for the other users. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115157 | MULTIPLE BUFFERING ORDERS FOR DIGITAL CONTENT ITEM - Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to buffering digital content items in different orders for different user experiences. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides, on a computing device, a method for providing a buffering order for a digital content item. The method includes receiving from a remote computing device a request to access a selected digital content item, the selected digital content item comprising a plurality of content portions consumable in a plurality of different orders, the plurality of different orders corresponding to a plurality of user experiences for the selected digital content item, and in response, providing a selected content provision schema selected from a plurality of content provision schemas for the selected digital content item, each content provision schema defining a buffering order of the plurality of content portions of the selected digital content item for a corresponding user experience of the selected digital content item. | 04-24-2014 |
20140172971 | CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF A P2P NETWORK - Telemetry data from a plurality of peer computers of a peer-to-peer network is aggregated via a computer network. Each of the plurality of peer computers sends telemetry data relating to transfer of a digital content item within the peer-to-peer network. A mitigation operation that modifies transfer of a digital content item between peer computers of the peer-to-peer network is performed according to one or more health metrics of the peer-to-peer network. The one or more health metrics are derived from the telemetry data aggregated from the plurality of peer computers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172972 | CONTENT SOURCE SELECTION IN A P2P NETWORK - Telemetry data from a plurality of peer computers of a peer-to-peer network is aggregated via a computer network. Each of the plurality of peer computers sends telemetry data related to transfer of a digital content item within the peer-to-peer network. A content-acquisition request querying for a recommended content source to provide a first digital content item is received from a first peer computer of the peer-to-peer network via the computer network. A response to the content-acquisition request is sent to the first peer computer via the computer network. The response identifies a second peer computer of the peer-to-peer network that has the first digital content item as the recommended content source. The second peer computer is selected according to a peer selection metric derived from the telemetry data aggregated from the plurality of peer computers. | 06-19-2014 |