US 11,871,079 B2
Client and a method for managing, at the client, a streaming session of a multimedia content
Charline Taibi Guguen, Cesson-Sevigne (FR); Yvon Legallais, Rennes (FR); and Remi Houdaille, Cesson-Sevigne (FR)
Assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS, Paris (FR)
Appl. No. 17/424,364
Filed by InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS, Paris (FR)
PCT Filed Jan. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/051112
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/152045, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19305080 (EP), filed on Jan. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0103899 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44209 (2013.01) [H04N 21/816 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A client device for managing a streaming session of a multimedia content received from a communication network, said client device comprising one or more processors configured for:
obtaining, for representations of the multimedia content having multiple segments, a frame size of a first frame of a next segment to be requested;
obtaining, for the representations of the multimedia content, a download time for the first frame of the next segment to be requested from a ratio of the obtained frame size of the first frame of the next segment to be requested over an available bandwidth; and
requesting a representation from among the representations based on the obtained download time of the representation being equal to or below a reference time.