US 12,231,703 B2
Bitrate and pipeline preservation for content presentation
Amarendra N. Gogoi, Fremont, CA (US); Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Bangalore (IN); and Ravikant Swami, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to OpenTV, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by OpenTV, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/480,918.
Application 18/480,918 is a continuation of application No. 17/454,169, filed on Nov. 9, 2021, granted, now 11,825,139.
Application 17/454,169 is a continuation of application No. 16/645,598, granted, now 11,184,652, previously published as PCT/US2018/046723, filed on Aug. 14, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 201741031917 (IN), filed on Sep. 8, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0107090 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2365 (2011.01); H04L 65/70 (2022.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/23655 (2013.01) [H04L 65/70 (2022.05); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a digital receiver, the method comprising:
receiving a selection of a new piece of content for playback during playback of a first piece of content;
in response to the receiving of the selection, transitioning to the new piece of content;
determining whether the new piece of content is of a same content type as the first piece of content; and
based on the new piece of content being the same content type as the first piece of content, determining whether to preserve at least a portion of a playback pipeline used to play back the first piece of content, the playback pipeline comprising a source element to manage the downloading of content data for the new piece of content, a demultiplexer, an audio decoder, and a video decoder, the preserving of at least the portion of the playback pipeline comprising preserving one or more of the source element, the demultiplexer, the audio decoder, or the video decoder used to obtain the first piece of content for the new piece of content.