US 12,034,792 B2
Management of adaptive streaming of an item of digital content over a mobile network with selection of a maximum authorized encoding rate on the basis of a data bucket
Mathieu Rivoalen, Chatillon (FR); and Hervé Marchand, Chatillon (FR)
Assigned to Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Appl. No. 17/764,077
Filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/FR2020/051656
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/058910, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1910685 (FR), filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0345511 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 65/80 (2022.01); H04L 43/045 (2022.01); H04L 47/215 (2022.01); H04L 47/38 (2022.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.01); H04L 65/613 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/80 (2013.01) [H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 47/215 (2013.01); H04L 47/38 (2013.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.05); H04L 65/613 (2022.05)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing HTTP adaptive streaming of an item of digital content within a multimedia stream player terminal connected to a mobile communication network, the multimedia stream player terminal comprising a device for managing HTTP adaptive streaming of the item digital content,
the item of digital content being associated with a file for describing the item of digital content, comprising a list of time segments of the item of content each associated with a plurality of encoding rates of the item of content,
a maximum data volume to be consumed within the mobile communication network, as a data bucket, being allocated to the multimedia stream player terminal,
wherein, when the HTTP adaptive streaming of the digital content is launched, the management method being implemented by the device for managing HTTP adaptive streaming according and comprising:
determining a data volume that would be consumed by the multimedia stream player terminal as a result of streaming the time segments of the item of content at least some of the encoding rates; and
selecting a maximum encoding rate of the item of content authorized for the streaming on the basis of the consumed data volume associated therewith and of the data bucket;
wherein the selection comprises a pre-selection by the multimedia stream player terminal of the maximum encoding rate, a user being able to confirm or deny the pre-selection.