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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:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2012
Applicants:

Donald W. Gillies, San Diego, CA (US);

Charles N. Lo, San Diego, CA (US);

Michael G. Luby, Berkeley, CA (US);

Thomas Stockhammer, Bergen, DE;

Inventors:

Donald W. Gillies, San Diego, CA (US);

Charles N. Lo, San Diego, CA (US);

Michael G. Luby, Berkeley, CA (US);

Thomas Stockhammer, Bergen, DE;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/189 (2013.01); H04L 12/1836 (2013.01); H04L 12/1881 (2013.01); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04L 65/1083 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one example, a device includes one or more processing units configured to send, via a network, a request to retrieve at least a portion of media content, wherein the media content conforms to dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), and wherein the request comprises a request that the at least portion be delivered according to a file delivery service, and, in response to the request, to receive streaming data for the at least portion of the media content in accordance with the file delivery service over the network. The device may prepopulate a browser cache with the received data, such that a browser can, in effect, stream data using the file delivery service. The device may initially retrieve data of the media content using unicast, until a switch point of the data received via the file delivery service is reached.


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