Managed adaptive streaming
US10389780B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 8, 2013 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 9, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L65/80
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer readable medium and a method for bandwidth management, the method may include receiving or generating (a) video entity quality information for multiple sets of video entities, each set of video entities comprises video entities that belong to different versions of a same video stream, (b) user device screen size information for each user device out of multiple users devices, (c) user device profile information for each user out of multiple users, and (d) bandwidth constraints relating to bandwidth available for transmission of selected video entities to the user devices; wherein each user of the multiple users is associated with a user device of the multiple users devices; selecting for each user device a selected video entity based on at least (a) the video entity quality information, (b) the user device screen size information, (c) the requested video profile information, and (d) the bandwidth constraints; and, streaming to the multiple user devices from multiple selected video entities.
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