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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:
Apr. 21, 2020

Filed:

May. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Soon-gi Hong, Seoul, KR;

Do-young Joung, Seoul, KR;

Jeong-seok Choi, Yongin-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/6373 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/6377 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/601 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); H04N 21/2401 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/262 (2013.01); H04N 21/6373 (2013.01); H04N 21/6377 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method, performed by a client, of scheduling reception of media contents, the method including determining a plurality of network connections enabling the reception of the media contents between the client and a server, predicting a buffering timing at which segments of the media contents received in a unit of a buffer size of the client are received through some of the determined plurality of network connections, generating scheduling information for allocating the segments of the media contents to be allocated to the some network connections to each of the plurality of network connections at the predicted buffering timing, and transmitting the generated scheduling information to the server.


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