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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
Interdigital Vc Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Stephane Gouache, Cesson Sevigne, FR;
Guillaume Bichot, La Chapelle Chaussee, FR;
Francoise Le Bolzer, Rennes, FR;
INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Method for providing a content part of a multimedia content to a client terminal, corresponding cache. According to the invention, the method for providing a content part of a multimedia content to a client terminal, one or more caches being arranged along the transmission path between the client terminal and a remote server, several representations of said content part being available, comprises: —receiving (S) at a first cache (R), from the client terminal, a request for a given representation of said content part belonging to a set of allowable representations selected among said available representations of the content part, said request further comprising a list of alternative representations of the set and auxiliary information for specifying the scope of the request; —checking (S) at said first cache (R) if said given representation is stored in the cache; —in case said given representation is not cached, browsing (S) at said first cache (R) alternative representations listed.