Patent ID: 11936710
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 23:
24. A system for media delivery in cooperative device-to-device communications, the system being implemented on a first device of a plurality of devices, the system comprising:
a cache;
transceiver circuitry; and
control circuitry configured to:
connect, using the transceiver circuitry, to a content source for the media;
create, using the transceiver circuitry, a sidelink connection between each device of the plurality of devices, wherein a second device of the plurality of devices is not connected to the content source for the media;
retrieve, using the transceiver circuitry, from the content source, a manifest file for the media;
notify, using the transceiver circuitry, via the sidelink connection, other devices of the plurality of devices that the manifest file is available from the first device;
determine, based on connection metrics of each device of the plurality of devices, that the first device has the highest quality connection to the content source; and
in response to determining that the first device has the highest quality connection to the content source:
retrieve, using the transceiver circuitry, from the content source, a first segment of the media;
store the first segment in the cache; and
deliver, using the transceiver circuitry, via the sidelink connection, the first segment from the cache to the other devices of the plurality of devices in response to receiving, using the transceiver circuitry, requests from the other devices of the plurality of devices for the first segment.