US 11,736,548 B2
Rendering of background or picture-in-picture content as part of an HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS)
Mathieu Rivoalen, Châtillon (FR); and Hervé Marchand, Châtillon (FR)
Assigned to ORANGE, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Appl. No. 17/612,814
Filed by ORANGE, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
PCT Filed May 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/063109
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/234030, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1905266 (FR), filed on May 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0224745 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 65/65 (2022.01); H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/65 (2022.05) [H04L 65/75 (2022.05); H04L 67/02 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing HTTP adaptive streaming of digital content within a real-time multimedia stream player terminal, associated with a terminal for rendering said digital content, said method comprising:
obtaining a description file for said digital content, comprising a list of time segments of said content each associated with a plurality of encoding rates of said content; and
during a concomitant rendering, by said rendering terminal, of said digital content and of an element, called main element, belonging to a group comprising a menu and other digital content, a partial downloading of at least some of said time segments, and rendering, a picture decoded from the downloaded portion of said corresponding time segment.