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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:
Dec. 09, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2013
Applicant:

Motorola Mobility Llc, Libertyville, IL (US);

Inventors:

Haifeng Xu, San Diego, CA (US);

Ajay Luthra, San Diego, CA (US);

Praveen N. Moorthy, San Diego, CA (US);

Mark S. Schmidt, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Motorola Mobility LLC, Libertyville, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/6547 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/2365 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/25 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/2401 (2013.01); H04N 21/6547 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04N 21/234345 (2013.01); H04N 21/23655 (2013.01); H04N 21/26216 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for providing video content from a server to a plurality of media devices is disclosed, the method comprising: determining, by the server, the bandwidth to allocate to each of the plurality of media devices using a hypertext transfer protocol-based live streaming client model or a need parameter vector and providing the allocated bandwidth to each of the plurality of media devices, wherein the video content is transmitted in a plurality of segments from the server, and wherein each segment is transmitted at a bitrate that may vary from segment to segment.


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