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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
The Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (US);
Bo Han, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Peshala Pahalawatta, Burbank, CA (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Feng Qian, Minneapolis, MN (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, a method including obtaining media content and a ranking for each tile of the media content based on a plurality of viewports; receiving a request from user equipment to view the media content; obtaining, iteratively, a plurality for predicted fields of view of the user, the predicted fields of view each covering different future time periods; identifying viewports corresponding to the predicted fields of view; sending any remaining tiles corresponding to the closest in time predicted field of view to the user equipment; and sending remaining tiles corresponding to successive predicted fields of view to the user equipment the ranking based and an excess bandwidth. Other embodiments are disclosed.