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Management of adaptive streaming of an item of digital content over a mobile network with selection of a maximum authorized encoding rate on the basis of a data bucket

US12034792B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 23, 2020
Grant dateJul 9, 2024
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Expiry dateSep 23, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/431
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for managing adaptive streaming of an item of digital content within a multimedia stream reading terminal connected to a mobile communication network is disclosed. The item of digital content is associated with a description file for the item and includes a list of time segments of the item of content that are each associated with multiple encoding rates of the item of content. A maximum data volume to be consumed within the mobile communication network, as a data bucket, is allocated to the multimedia stream reading terminal. When the adaptive streaming of the item is launched, the method determines a data volume that would be consumed by the multimedia stream reading terminal as a result of streaming the time segments and selects a maximum encoding rate of the item authorized for the streaming on the basis of the consumed data volume associated therewith and of the data bucket.

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