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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Inventor:
Mark S. Schmidt, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Sawanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 65/601 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for predicting the software frame decoding time for an HLS variant bit stream based on measurements of the frame decoding time for the lowest bit rate variant given in the master playlist and acquired and played at initial session startup. This permits the determination of a maximum bitrate setting to be refined and applied at startup such that a media program player does not attempt to download and decode variants that might exceed its CPU capacity, thus preventing playback stalls and similar failures.