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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Gordon Kent Walker, Poway, CA (US);
Thomas Stockhammer, Bergen, DE;
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of transporting media data includes, by a file-based protocol sending unit of a source device, receiving a stream of data comprising Segments of media data from a segmenter of the source device that forms the Segments, each of the Segments comprising a respective individually retrievable file associated with a unique uniform resource locator (URL), determining locations of media delivery events (MDEs) in the stream of media data, wherein the MDEs include data for at least a portion of one of the Segments, determining one or more transmission time requirements for the MDEs representing times at which the MDEs are to be sent to a client device, and providing the MDEs and data representing the transmission time requirements to a physical layer sending unit of the source device according to available delivery slots for the physical layer sending unit.