US 10,856,015 B2 · Method for operating a cache arranged along a transmission path between client terminals and at least one server, and corresponding cache

Abstract

Cache (DANE) located along a transmission path between client terminals (CT) and at least one server (SE) and configured to receive requests from client terminals (CT) for segments of a multimedia content available at several representations, which comprises: —an interface of connection (1) for receiving, from a first client terminal, a first request for a preferred representation and at least one alternative representation of a given segment of said multimedia content; —a matching module (5) configured to determine if at least one ongoing representation of said given segment, already requested by the cache from a server for a further client terminal, matches the preferred representation or an alternative representation of the first request.

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Dependent claims

A method for operating a cache configured to be arranged along a transmission path between a plurality of client terminals and at least one server, comprising:

requesting a first ongoing representation of a segment of a multimedia content from the at least one server, based on a first request from a first client terminal of the plurality of client terminals;
receiving, from a second client terminal of the plurality of client terminals, a second request comprising a preferred representation and at least one alternative representation of the segment of the multimedia content, while receipt of the first ongoing representation at the cache, from the at least one server, is pending download completion;
and
determining that the first ongoing representation matches at least one of the preferred representation or the alternative representation of the second request.

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A network equipment comprising a cache adapted to be located along a transmission path between a plurality of client terminals and at least one server, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a first ongoing representation of a segment of a multimedia content from the at least one server, based on a first request from a first client terminal of the plurality of client terminals;
an interface of connection for receiving, from a second client terminal of the plurality of client terminals, a second request for a preferred representation and at least one alternative representation of the segment of said multimedia content while receipt of the first ongoing representation at the cache, from the at least one server, is pending download completion;
and
a matching module configured to determine that the first ongoing representation matches at least one of the preferred representation or an alternative representation of the second request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method for operating a cache arranged along a transmission path between client terminals and at least one server, and corresponding cache

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Method for operating a cache arranged along a transmission path between client terminals and at least one server, and corresponding cache

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Abstract

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