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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Shuai Hao, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Subhabrata Sen, Westfield, NJ (US);
Anis Elgabli, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Feng Qian, Bloomington, IN (US);
Vaneet Aggarwal, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
The Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request for media content, the media content being divided into a plurality of chunks, obtaining information about the chunks and constraints, determining whether there is a remaining layer to be downloaded, in response to determining that there is a remaining layer to be downloaded, determining a list of chunks that can be downloaded at a current layer and a downloading schedule according to the list of chunks that can be downloaded at the current layer, in response to determining that there is no remaining layer to be downloaded, producing a composite schedule for downloading the media content, and downloading the media content according to the composite schedule. Other embodiments are disclosed.