Systems and methods for selecting a data delivery network are disclosed. The methods comprise requesting multimedia content delivery, the request comprising an indication of available bandwidth, receiving an indication of an expected performance threshold of a multimedia content item associated with the request for multimedia content, determining a fetch time for the multimedia content item to be delivered from a first data delivery network, and, in response to the fetch time being above the expected performance threshold, selecting a second data delivery network to deliver the multimedia content item.

The disclosed embodiments relate to media devices implementing new television standards, such as ATSC 3.0, which includes audio/video essence and metadata/signaling. The disclosed embodiments include techniques for confirming an association between two media devices by augmenting media content with a watermark using an upstream device, wherein the watermark conveys an identifier. The media content is sent from the upstream device to a downstream device and the watermark is detected using the downstream device. The identifier is transmitted to a server upon the detection of the watermark using the downstream device. The server identifies an association between the upstream and downstream devices upon receipt of the identifier from the downstream device.

Disclosed are a television apparatus and a display method. The television apparatus includes a display configured to display an image, a communication interface configured to communicate with a mobile device and one or more servers, and a controller in connection with the display and the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive authentication information from a second server of the one or more servers, display the authentication information on the display of the display apparatus, receive a display request for displaying an item in actual physical size from the second server, and display the item in actual physical size on the display of the television apparatus.

Example embodiments provide systems and methods for crowdsourced skipping of media content portions. In an example method, a plurality of content tags are received from a plurality of media content devices over a communication network. Each of the plurality of content tags may designate a location within a media content item. The content tags are processed to generate aggregated content tags for the media content item. The aggregated content tags may designate one or more portions of the media content item for modified playback. The aggregated content tags for the media content item are transmitted over the communication network to a first media content device separate from the plurality of media content devices.

A system and method of operating a content distribution system includes generating a first request for first content by a first user device. Based on the first request for the first content, the first content is pre-positioned by communicating the first content to a downstream storage device closer to a second user device without communicating the first content to the first user device using the downstream storage device; and storing the first content in the downstream storage device as pre-positioned content. The method further includes communicating the first content to the second user device from the downstream storage device.

A receiving device, a receiving method, a transmitting device, and a transmitting method. The receiving device acquires a digital broadcast signal that includes audio-video (AV) content and location information, the location information indicating a source from which application control information for controlling an operation of an application executed in conjunction with a progressing timing of the AV content is obtainable, acquires the application control information from the source indicated by the location information, the application control information including an application ID and a uniform resource locator (URL), obtains, from the URL included in the acquired application control information, control information during a polling period that is defined in accordance with an attribute specified in the acquired application control information, and controls the operation of the application based on the acquired application control information and the obtained control information.

A method for transmitting a multimedia resource, including: determining target address information based on a media presentation description of a multimedia resource, where the media presentation description includes address information of the multimedia resource having different code rates, and the target address information is address information of the multimedia resource having a target code rate; and sending a frame acquiring request carrying the target address information to a server, where the frame acquiring request is configured to instruct the server to return media frames of the multimedia resource at the target code rate.

A method for delivering a web page that displays a video includes delivering a requested web page with a WebAssembly Module to a web browser of a requesting device. The WebAssembly Module includes a plurality of video decoders each for decoding a corresponding one of a plurality of video encoding formats. An encoded video is delivered for display by the requested web page, the encoded video being encoded in a particular one of the plurality of video encoding formats. The encoded video is decoded using a respective one of the plurality of video decoders of the WebAssembly Module that corresponds to the particular one of the plurality of video encoding formats of the delivered encoded video.

Techniques for display using frame and child frame technology for video and webpage rendering are disclosed. A video stream is received. The video stream is displayed as a video in a window on a device display along with a link. The link includes a webpage uniform resource locator (URL). A selection of the link made by a user is received. The selection is made in response to a call to action. The video is rendered along with results of the link that was selected. Rendering of the results of the link includes a webpage associated with the webpage URL. The user can interact with the webpage while the video is being rendered. The video is reduced to render the video as a reduced video on a portion of the device display. The rendering the reduced video and webpage is accomplished without a popup window.

Systems and methods generating interactive videos on an automated platform are provided herein. The example methods can include receiving data associated with at least one physical item and receiving video content comprising a visual presentation of the physical item. The method can include receiving a selection of a predetermined template, in which the template comprising a plurality of modules organized in a tree structure. The method can further include organizing the video content into the predetermined template to form organized video content, and embedding an object in a portion of the organized video content to form an interactive video, in which the object is based on the received data and is configured to enable at least one of: (i) user interaction with the physical item; or (ii) a link to a webpage associated with the physical item.