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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Lee Friedman, Alpharetta, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving, at a server, channel change request data from a media device. The channel change request data specifies a requested channel that is associated with a plurality of multimedia streams. Each multimedia stream of the plurality of multimedia streams has a corresponding content format. The method includes determining, at the server, an available bandwidth of a service to a premises associated with the media device. The method includes selecting, at the server, a particular content format based on the available bandwidth and a multimedia stream of the plurality of multimedia streams that has the particular content format. The method also includes sending an identification of the multimedia stream from the server to the media device.