Network Aware Adaptive Streaming™ (NAAS)

• Live and on-demand video using http virtual segment delivery with CDN Acceleration
• Intelligent on-device cache ahead technology to ensure smooth delivery of video regardless of network uncertainty
• Smooth shifting for multi-mode playback
• Long-form playback optimization with smooth streaming to minimize buffering delays
• Auto-chapterization based on editorial markers or regular time intervals
• Continuous inline bandwidth measurement and real-time bit rate throttling
• Device detection and adaptation for all major smart phones and netbooks based on OS, on-board memory, native media player capabilities, browser version, etc.

Nomadic User State Management™

• Saving and restoring media play state: resume interrupted viewing sessions from the last point watched, even across multiple videos
• Session shifting to enable users to interrupt viewing on one device and resume on a different device from the last point watched
• Managing subscription and content access rules across multiple devices – synchronizing to existing subscription databases

TCP Wireless Optimization

• TCP extensions to support long latency and real-time delivery
• Suppression of stale retransmission
• Rate pacing to support optimal stream delivery
• Auto-chapterization and video navigation with ClickZoom™

Multi-device DRM support

• Generation of dynamic device-specific keys (digital rights objects)
• Offline Nomadic DRM support
• Resource-friendly implementation
• User rights management, including rental model
• Support for industry standards – depending on device capabilities

Dynamic ad insertion

• High-performance ad session server for handling large volume of high-latency transactions
• On-the-fly video ad insertion based on marker technology

Chapterization, ClickZoom™ & compound media objects

• Unique interactive features enabling commenting, sharing and other user interactions around entire video clips or dynamically defined sub-sections
• Chapter segmentation based on editorially defined chapter breaks, predetermined time intervals or both
• Network-friendly glanceable video consumption
• Rapid graphical navigation of video files down to the frame-by-frame level
• On-the-fly object creation based on user search criteria, subject tags or other metadata
• Advanced marker technology enabling deep linkages between disparate media objects