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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2017
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Manuel Jose Dominic Caballero, Romsey, GB;
Mark Edwin Hewis, London, GB;
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01); H04L 12/873 (2013.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/601 (2013.01); H04L 47/52 (2013.01); H04L 49/9005 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/602 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/234327 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/64769 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for a streaming media application. Media blocks of a media stream may be buffered at a quality level determined by an amount of available bandwidth. When excess bandwidth is made available, a higher quality replacement for a buffered media block may be obtained concurrent to streaming the media blocks. The replacement media block then replaces the lower quality media block in the buffer such that the higher quality replacement media block is rendered.