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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Maria M Sagayaraj, Chennai, IN;
NarayanaDhoss Gopalakrishnan, Chennai, IN;
Ganesh Ramasamy, Chennai, IN;
Poothabalan Somasundaram, Tirunelveli, IN;
Krishnakumar Sundaram, Erode, IN;
Sundar Sivaraman, Tirunelveli, IN;
Arunkumar Surulinathan, Tamilnadu, IN;
Habeeb Abdulquiyum, Thondi, IN;
Saravanan Vijaykumar, TamilNadu, IN;
Manjunathan Ramanathan, Vellore, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Intelligent streaming of multimedia content is provided. Based on various conditions and signals detected by a mobile device, an activity state of the mobile device that indicates whether viewing of a video portion of streaming multimedia content is desirable or likely may be determined. A server streaming the multimedia content, upon receiving from the mobile device either a request to eliminate the video portion streaming multimedia content or a status update that the video portion is not viewable or is not likely being viewed, is configured to replace streaming of the multimedia content with both audio and video portions with streaming of the multimedia content containing the audio portion but without the video portion.