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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
THOMSON LICENSING, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/433 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/608 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/231 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for downloading multimedia contents is disclosed. The multimedia contents exists in at least two versions. Each of the versions corresponds to a different required transmission bit rate and each of the versions is temporally divided into chunks corresponding to a determined duration, one chunk being identified by an item of information representative of a temporal position i and by an item of information representative of a version j. A content receiver implementing this method is also described.