Method and system for dynamic rate adaptation of a stream of multimedia contents in a wireless communication network
US10367875B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 23, 2014 |
| Grant date | Jul 30, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/509
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of downloading multimedia content from a server to a client through a wireless communication network is proposed. The multimedia content is subdivided into a plurality of portions and for each portion the server stores a plurality of versions thereof each of which is encoded with a specific encoding quality. The method comprises: selecting, among the plurality of versions of each portion of the multimedia content, a version of the portion of the multimedia content to be downloaded on the basis of wireless communication parameters determined at at least two different layers of a wireless communication network OSI protocol stack at the client.
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