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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
The Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (US);
Bo Han, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Zhengye Liu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Feng Qian, Bloomington, 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, a device that includes a processing system with a processor, a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations including receiving a request that identifies a first list of tiles for streaming a panoramic video, determining a first total number of data packets required to transmit tiles in the first list of tiles, maintaining a second total number of empty data packets enqueued into a transport control protocol (TCP) buffer, maintaining a third total number of empty data packets dequeued from the TCP buffer, and enqueuing empty data packets into the TCP buffer whenever the first total number of data packets is greater than a difference between the second total number of empty data packets and the third total number of empty data packets. Other embodiments are disclosed.