US 11,895,172 B2
Session-based description URL customization using the session-based DASH operations
Iraj Sodagar, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/702,874.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/177,788, filed on Apr. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0345509 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 65/65 (2022.01); H04L 65/70 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/65 (2022.05) [H04L 65/70 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing video content in a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (DASH) streaming session, the method performed by at least one processor, and comprising:
obtaining a pre-session-based description (PreSBD) information of the DASH streaming session from a PreSBD descriptor, the PreSBD information instructing a PreSBD client to generate customized session-based description (SBD) document uniform resource locator (URL) for a plurality of SBD descriptors of the DASH streaming session, and the PreSBD descriptor being separate from the plurality of SBD descriptors;
instantiating the PreSBD client and passing PreSBD descriptor information, wherein the PreSBD client is instantiated prior to instantiating any SBD descriptor among the plurality of SBD descriptors;
controlling generation of a customized SBD document URL associated with a first SBD descriptor from the plurality of SBD descriptors of the DASH streaming session; and
launching a first SBD client associated with the first SBD descriptor based on the customized SBD document URL and passing the first SBD descriptor to the first SBD client, wherein the first SBD client is among the plurality of SBD descriptors.