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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:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;

Inventors:

Zhe Lou, Antwerp, BE;

Rafael Huysegems, Antwerp, BE;

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Nozay, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 41/147 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/30 (2013.01); H04L 67/303 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

A client device for controlling playback of media content that is streamed through a network to the client device, comprising: an obtaining module configured for obtaining network prediction information representing network conditions of the network predicted for a future prediction time period; and a playback control module configured for controlling playback of said content based on the network prediction information.


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