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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Telecom Italia S.p.a., Milan, IT;
Gennaro Boggia, Bari, IT;
Pietro Camarda, Bari, IT;
Marco Caretti, Turin, IT;
Roberto Fantini, Turin, IT;
Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Bari, IT;
Bruno Melis, Turin, IT;
Giuseppe Piro, Bari, IT;
Telecom Italia S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A method of downloading multimedia content from a server to a client through a wireless communication network is proposed. The multimedia content is subdivided into a plurality of portions and for each portion the server stores a plurality of versions thereof each of which is encoded with a specific encoding quality. The method comprises: selecting, among the plurality of versions of each portion of the multimedia content, a version of the portion of the multimedia content to be downloaded on the basis of wireless communication parameters determined at at least two different layers of a wireless communication network OSI protocol stack at the client.