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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2019
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventor:

Robert C. Streijl, Brighton, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/44209 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/6131 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04N 21/25841 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method embodying the disclosure includes facilitating communications with mobile user equipment (UE) devices to form a collaborative group that uses a local wireless network. A UE receives video content from a content provider via a first network, presents the video content, and predicts a degradation of presentation quality for a portion of the video content. The UE sends requests to other UEs in the group for subportions of the video content, and receives the subportions via the local wireless network. The requesting UE aggregates the received subportions to obtain an alternate video portion for presentation and thus mitigate the predicted degradation of presentation quality. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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