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1. EP4080892 - METHOD FOR PLAYING ON A PLAYER OF A CLIENT DEVICE A CONTENT STREAMED IN A NETWORK

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European Patent Office
Application Number 21305520
Application Date 20.04.2021
Publication Number 4080892
Publication Date 26.10.2022
Publication Kind A1
IPC
H04N 21/2343
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand
20Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
23Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
234Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs
2343involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements
H04N 21/2662
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand
20Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
25Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
266Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system or merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
2662Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
H04N 21/63
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand
60Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client; Communication details between server and client
63Control signaling between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing
CPC
H04N 21/23439
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
20Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
23Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
234Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams, manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs
2343involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements
23439for generating different versions
H04N 21/632
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
60Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client ; , e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client 
63Control signaling ; related to video distribution; between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients ; or between remote clients; , e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing
632using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices
H04N 21/2662
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
20Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
25Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
266Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
2662Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
H04L 65/75
H04N 21/2402
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
20Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
23Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
24Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests
2402Monitoring of the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. bandwidth available
H04N 21/251
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
21Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
20Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
25Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
251Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies
Applicants STREAMROOT
Inventors YOUSEF HIBA
STORELLI ALEXANDRE
Designated States
Priority Data 21305520 20.04.2021 EP
Title
(DE) VERFAHREN ZUM ABSPIELEN EINES IN EINEM NETZWERK GESTREAMTEN INHALTS AUF EINEM ABSPIELGERÄT EINER CLIENT-VORRICHTUNG
(EN) METHOD FOR PLAYING ON A PLAYER OF A CLIENT DEVICE A CONTENT STREAMED IN A NETWORK
(FR) PROCÉDÉ DE LECTURE D'UN CONTENU DIFFUSÉ DANS UN RÉSEAU SUR LE LECTEUR D'UN DISPOSITIF CLIENT
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Abstract
(EN) The present invention relates to a method for playing on a player of a client device (11) a content streamed in a network (1), said content consisting of a sequence of segments available in a plurality of quality levels, the player being configured to request segments at a selectable quality level; the method being characterized in that it comprises performing by a processing unit (110) of the client device (11):(a) obtaining from the network (1) a model approximating an Adaptive BitRate, ABR, logic for choosing said quality level of the segments as a function of at least one parameter representative of a segment reception rate;(b) determining, according to said obtained model, a first quality level at which the player would have requested a current segment if the player was applying said ABR logic;(c) configuring the player to select said first quality level as quality level for requesting segments.
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