US 12,425,467 B2
Fast encoding of live streaming media content
Torbjorn Einarsson, Stockholm (SE)
Assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Adeia Media Holdings LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,156.
Application 18/136,156 is a continuation of application No. 15/799,361, filed on Oct. 31, 2017, granted, now 11,665,218.
Application 15/799,361 is a continuation of application No. 14/491,950, filed on Sep. 19, 2014, granted, now 9,838,455, issued on Dec. 5, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254357 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 65/70 (2022.01); H04L 65/60 (2022.01); H04L 65/61 (2022.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.01); H04L 65/65 (2022.01); H04L 65/75 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/70 (2022.05) [H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/61 (2022.05); H04L 65/612 (2022.05); H04L 65/65 (2022.05); H04L 65/762 (2022.05)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for deactivating a media channel comprising:
monitoring one or more live streaming media channels;
identifying a live streaming media channel of the one or more live streaming media channels which is being encoded by an encoder for transmission to client devices and is not being utilized;
identifying one or more usage characteristics of the live streaming media channel;
determining that the one or more usage characteristics of the live streaming media channel meet a channel deactivation threshold, wherein the channel deactivation threshold specifies one or more usage characteristics which indicate that the encoder for the live streaming media channel should be deactivated;
deactivating the encoder for the live streaming media channel;
based at least in part on the deactivating of the encoder for the live streaming media channel, storing a portion of the encoded data from the live streaming media channel in a buffer, wherein the stored portion of the encoded data in the buffer is used to re-initialize the encoder after the encoder has been deactivated; and
reactivating the live streaming media channel using the stored portion of the encoded data in the buffer that was stored based at least in part on the channel deactivation threshold being met and before the deactivating of the encoder in order to re-initialize the encoder.