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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2010
Applicants:
Ajay Puri, Toronto, CA;
Paulo Sam, Markham, CA;
Haoran Song, Richmond, CA;
Chang-fung Yang, Mississauga, CA;
Inventors:
Ajay Puri, Toronto, CA;
Paulo Sam, Markham, CA;
Haoran Song, Richmond, CA;
Chang-Fung Yang, Mississauga, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/16 (2013.01); H04L 29/08576 (2013.01); H04L 41/083 (2013.01); H04L 29/08585 (2013.01); H04L 29/06326 (2013.01); H04L 29/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/14 (2013.01); H04L 65/4069 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/608 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for intelligent selection of a transport protocol for streaming content is presented. Successful use of transport protocol over each data network infrastructure is tracked for each streaming content server. Subsequent content playback requests sent to streaming content servers default to previous successfully employed transport protocol over a data network infrastructure.