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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Ericsson Television Inc., Duluth, GA (US);
Inventors:
Kevin McHugh, Milton, GA (US);
Chris Phillips, Hartwell, GA (US);
Charles Hammett Dasher, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Assignee:
ERICSSON AB, Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/6332 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/6332 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract
An adaptive streaming server and a method are described herein for determining if a congestion level within a network exceeds a predetermined threshold and when this occurs then one or more lower bit rate segments of a content stream will be transmitted to a client.