Abstract: A computing device (e.g., an encoder, a content packager, and/or content server) may receive content (e.g., a live or time-shifted content transmission, video-on-demand content transmission, video, audio, games, data, etc.). The computing device may separate the received content into a plurality of content segments. The computing device may insert metadata into each of the content segments. The metadata may include a segment identifier. The segment identifier may identify the next sequential content segment of the plurality of content segments.

Abstract: A computing device may receive, in a communication session, a request for a first portion of content (e.g., video, audio, audio/video, web-based content, games, applications, data, etc.) at a first representation. The first representation may be associated with a first video resolution. The computing device may send the first portion of the content to the user device at the first representation. The computing device may receive, in the communication session, a second request for a second portion of the content at a second representation. The second representation may be associated with a second video resolution that is different from the first video resolution. The computing device may send, in the communication session, the second portion of the content to the user device at the second representation.