US 12,294,635 B2Granted

Streaming policy management system and method

AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

InventorsChris Phillips, Charles Hammett Dasher

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Abstract

A streaming policy management system and method wherein bandwidth may be allocated based on external device information received from a streaming client device connected to one or more external audio/video (A/V) devices. When a streaming network back office receives a request from the streaming client device for delivery of a particular content, wherein the request includes external device information of one or more external A/V devices connected to the streaming client device, a bandwidth is determined for streaming the particular content to the streaming client device and a request may be made to a content delivery network to create a distribution pipe having the bandwidth to accommodate the delivery of the particular content. A manifest file is provided to the streaming client device that includes one or more pointers that point to content segments of the particular content.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method performed at a client device, the method comprising:

obtaining at the client device from an audio/visual (A/V) device information indicative of one or more resolutions supported by the A/V device and one or more audio formats supported by the A/V device, the information obtained via an HDMI connection between the client device and the A/V device, the A/V device external to the client device;
displaying on a graphical user interface of a local display of the client device, content available for selection, wherein content options associated with the content available for selection that are displayed on the user interface change based on the A/V device information, wherein the local display and the A/V device have different resolutions;
obtaining a manifest file for the selected content, the manifest file comprising URLs for a plurality of versions of the selected content;
obtaining via a network connection a first version of the plurality of versions of the selected content, wherein the first version is obtained based on the A/V device information, and wherein the first version is specifically supported by the A/V device and is not supported by the local display;
and
providing the obtained format of the selected content to the A/V device via the HDMI connection.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/136,149Filed 29 Dec 2020 · continuation
Priority: 11 Sep 2013
Published: US 2021/0120103 A122 Apr 2021
Granted: 6 May 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification24 codes

H04L 65/756
Media network packet handling: adapting media to device capabilities
H04L 69/03
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…
H02M 1/42
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Application14/024,301Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Sep 2013
Application15/443,031Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Feb 2017
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US 2021/0120103 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Apr 2021
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