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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2014
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Ye-Kui Wang, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Hongbing Li, Sillman, NJ (US);
Tingfang Tang, Beijing, CN;
Yuejing Yin, Beijing, CN;
FutureWei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes electronically receiving a media presentation description (MPD) from a network. The MPD describes multimedia content that includes alternative representations of a plurality of media types, and the MPD includes information indicative of how the alternative representations are encoded. The method also includes selecting one of the plurality of alternative representations for at least one of the plurality of media types based on information included in the MPD, requesting the selected one of the plurality of alternative representations piece-by-piece, and electronically receiving a piece of media data.