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Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2020
Applicant:

Dazn Limited, Feltham, GB;

Inventor:

James E. Knowler, Croydon, GB;

Assignee:

DAZN LIMITED, Feltham, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 43/0805 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01); H04L 65/4023 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates generally to a method for dynamically selecting quality levels for content downloads. The method includes receiving by a media player a content download request; determining a state of a quality module, where the state depends at least in part on a bandwidth available to the media player and a buffer value for the content; providing to the media player from the quality module a quality value corresponding to the state, wherein the quality value is used by the media player to request one or more content fragments from a server; receiving by the media player the one or more content fragments; and displaying by the medial player the one or more content fragments.


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