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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2017
Applicant:
Netflix Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NETFLIX, INC., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/02 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/4069 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 69/14 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention set forth techniques for a content player to stream a media file using multiple network connections. To stream the media file, the content player downloads metadata associated with a requested media file, establishes a network connection with multiple content servers (or multiple network connections with a single content server or both) and begins requesting portions of the media file. In response, the requested portions are transmitted to the content player. The content player may employ a predictive multi-connection scheduling approach to determine which network connection to use in downloading a given chunk.