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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2014
Applicant:

Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;

Inventors:

Charline Taibi, Chartres de Bretagne, FR;

Francoise Le Bolzer, Rennes, FR;

Remi Houdaille, Cesson Sevigne, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/873 (2013.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 47/522 (2013.01); H04L 47/72 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/605 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention concerns a device for reserving bandwidth for an adaptive streaming client belonging to at least one network and configured for receiving a streaming content from at least one server, the streaming content being available at more than one data rate at the server. The device includes a stream identifier configured for detecting at least one streaming content requested by the client, a bandwidth manager configured for temporarily reserving for the client, when at least one event occurs, a transient bandwidth depending on the predetermined target data rate associated with the requested streaming content and a transient margin.


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