Manifest chunking in content delivery in a network
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a system and methods for dynamic re-localization and manifest chunking in a content delivery network. In one implementation, a request for content is received. A first manifest subset is provided using a network component in response to the request for content. The first manifest subset identifies a first set of one or more content segments and a second manifest subset. The first set of one or more content segments constitute a portion of the content, and the second manifest subset is identified at a tail of the first manifest subset. The first set of one or more content segments is served in response to separate requests. A request for the second manifest subset identifying a second set of one or more content segments is received. In another implementation, localization errors are remedied by replacing a relative identifier with an absolute identifier.
1. A method comprising:
receiving a request for content from a user device;
providing a first manifest subset using a network component in response to the request for content, the first manifest subset identifying a first set of one or more content segments and a second manifest subset, the first set of one or more content segments constituting a portion of the content, the second manifest subset being identified at a tail of the first manifest subset;
serving the first set of one or more content segments in response to separate requests; and
receiving a request for the second manifest subset, the second manifest subset identifying a second set of one or more content segments.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
modifying one or more content retrieval parameters in response to the request for the second manifest subset.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more content retrieval parameters includes changing a bit rate of at least one of the content segments in the second set.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more content retrieval parameters includes changing a path through which at least one of the content segments in the second set is served.
5. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
serving at least one of the content segments in the second set based on the modified content retrieval parameters.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the content segments in the first or second set is served over an access network.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the content segments in the first or second set is served over a cellular network.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content is a video.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second manifest subset is identified with a uniform resource locator dynamically generated by the network component.
10. A system for delivering content to a user device, the system comprising:
a network component device located in a path between a content source and the user device, the network component device configured to:
provide a first manifest subset to the user device in response to a request for the content, the first manifest subset identifying a first set of one or more content segments and a second manifest subset, the first set of one or more content segments constituting a portion of the content, the second manifest subset being identified at a tail of the first manifest subset;
serve the first set of one or more content segments in response to separate requests; and
receive a request for the second manifest subset, the second manifest subset identifying a second set of one or more content segments.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more content segments and the second manifest subset are identified with one or more uniform resource locators.
12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the content is a video.
13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the network component is further configured to modify one or more content retrieval parameters in response to a request for the second manifest subset, the second manifest subset identifying one or more second content segments.
14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the one or more content retrieval parameters includes changing a path through which at least one of the second content segments is served.
15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the second manifest subset is identified with a uniform resource locator dynamically generated by the network component.
16. A method comprising:
requesting content;
receiving a first manifest subset from a network component in response to the request for content, the first manifest subset identifying a first set of one or more content segments and a second manifest subset, the first set of one or more content segments constituting a portion of the content, the second manifest subset being identified at a tail of the first manifest subset;
requesting at least one of the first set of one or more content segments based on the first manifest subset;
receiving the requested content segments; and
requesting the second manifest subset, the second manifest subset identifying a second set of one or more content segments.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein at least one of the content segments in the first or second set is received over an access network.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein at least one of the content segments in the first or second set is received over a cellular network.
19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the content is a video.