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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2012
Applicants:
Bart DE Vleeschauwer, Schilde, BE;
Rafaël Huysegems, Walem, BE;
Tingyao Wu, Heverlee, BE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 17/30902 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention concerns a cache manager () for managing the intermediate caching of segmented multimedia items. Multiple versions are available of each multimedia item, each version representing the multimedia item with a different quality. The cache manager () comprises control means () to control the pre-fetching and eviction of segments. The control means () are at least responsive to temporal and quality related inter-segment relationships ().