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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2013
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
In adaptive streaming, video segments are available in one or more quality levels, and each video segment is delivered to the client () in a quality level specified in a request received from that client (). In order to reduce the risk for buffer underrun, an adaptive streaming aware network node () comprises: —session monitoring means () for collecting buffer fill information indicative for a buffer volume at the client () occupied by a video session; —priority calculation means () for determining a priority level for video segments of the session in function of the buffer fill information; and —video segment marking means () for marking video segments of the session with the priority level.