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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Google Technology Holdings Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wendell Sun, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven E. Anderson, San Diego, CA (US);
Dinkar Bhat, Princeton, NJ (US);
Niranjan Samant, Lansdale, PA (US);
GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, devices and methods for adaptive switching in multicast media streams are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for adaptively transmitting content to one or more users based on currently available bandwidth via internet protocol ('IP') multicast protocol, includes: receiving a first content stream having a plurality of data packets, the first content stream encoded at a first bit rate; receiving a second content stream having a plurality of data packets, the second content stream encoded at a second bit rate, wherein the first bit rate is different than the second bit rate and wherein the first and second content streams represent the same content; transmitting the first content stream to a user; determining that the user could receive the second content stream based on available bandwidth for transmitting data to the user; and transmitting the second content stream to the user.