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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:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Zhehui Zhang, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Shu Shi, Summit, NJ (US);

Rittwik Jana, Montville, NJ (US);

Varun Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4402 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44029 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/434 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a plurality of requests for frames of video content to provide to a mobile device. Further embodiments can include determining a first portion of the plurality of requests are for pre-fetch frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the pre-fetch frames to the mobile device over a default bearer path. Additional embodiments can include determining a second portion of the plurality of requests are for emergent frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the emergent frames to the mobile device over a dedicated bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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