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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:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Bitmovin Gmbh, Klagenfurt, AT;

Inventors:

Christopher Mueller, Villach, AT;

Stefan Lederer, Klagenfurt, AT;

Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt, AT;

Assignee:

BITMOVIN GMBH, Klagenfurt, AT;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); H04L 12/28 (2013.01); H04L 29/06027 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01);
Abstract

A streaming media playback device is provided for playing multimedia presentations with segments encoding video data at different quality levels for adaptive streaming through a network from a server, for example based on MPEG DASH. The streaming media playback device selects segments at a given quality level from those available at the server based on an adaptive bitrate setting and an oscillation measure. The adaptive bitrate setting is selected based on network bandwidth conditions. The oscillation measure provides an indication of how often the device switches between segments of different quality levels. The next segment is selected based on the adaptive bitrate setting unless the oscillation measure exceeds a threshold.


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