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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2017
Verizon Digital Media Services Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Ravikiran Patil, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Verizon Digital Media Services Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
An adaptive stream segment prefetcher changes the number of segments it prefetches following a client requested segment of the same stream based on conditions associated with that stream at prefetch time. The adaptive prefetcher increases or decreases the number of segments to prefetch for a particular stream based on the number of active or concurrent clients requesting that particular stream, based on the playback duration of the particular stream by one or more clients, or some combination of both. The adaptive prefetcher continuously monitors the conditions associated with the stream such that number of segments prefetched at a first time are greater or less than the number of segments prefetched at a later second time.