公开(公告)号：US20210211483A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17204802

申请日：2021-03-17

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Michael LUBY ,  Mark WATSON ,  Lorenzo VICISANO ,  Payam PAKZAD ,  Bin WANG

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/24

Abstract: A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates data in a form to be served by a conventional file server (HTTP, FTP, or the like), wherein the ingestion system intakes content and prepares it as files or data elements to be served by the file server. A client device can be adapted to take advantage of the ingestion process. The client device might be configured to optimize use of resources, given the information available to it from the ingestion system. This may include configurations to determine the sequence, timing and construction of block requests based on monitoring buffer size and rate of change of buffer size, use of variable sized requests, mapping of block requests to underlying transport connections, flexible pipelining of requests, and/or use of whole file requests based on statistical considerations.