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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2016
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dazhong Zhang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Peikang Song, San Jose, CA (US);
Yunfei Zheng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chris Y. Chung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jae Hoon Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/184 (2014.01); H04N 19/44 (2014.01); H04N 19/37 (2014.01); H04N 19/40 (2014.01); H04N 19/85 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/44 (2014.11); H04N 19/85 (2014.11);
Abstract
A method of managing resources on a terminal includes determining a number of downloaded video streams active at the terminal, prioritizing the active video streams, assigning a decoding quality level to each active video stream based on a priority assignment for each active video stream, and apportioning reception bandwidth to each active video stream based on an assigned quality level of each active video stream.