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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2019
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
James F. DiMattia, Easton, PA (US);
Sankar Subramanian, Ossining, NY (US);
Johannes P. Schmidt, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Walter J. Schmidt, Dallas, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium provides to receive Moving Picture Experts Group Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (MPEG-DASH) segments that have multiple bit rates of a program; divide each of the MPEG-DASH segments into first multiple slices of program data of the program; generate first header slices for the first multiple slices, wherein each of the first header slices includes sequence information and an identifier of one of the MPEG-DASH segments; and multicast second packets that include the first headers and the first multiple slices.