Patent ID: 11956293
Assignee: ADEIA GUIDES INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a device, first information identifying a first set of content delivery networks (CDNs), wherein each CDN of the first set of CDNs is available via a first network interface of the device for accessing segments of a content item;
receiving, by the device, second information identifying a second set of CDNs, wherein each CDN of the second set of CDNs is available via a second network interface of the device for accessing the segments of the content item;
identifying, based on the first information and the second information, a plurality of network interface/CDN pairs;
determining a respective performance metric for each respective network interface/CDN pair of the plurality of network interface/CDN pairs;
selecting a selected network interface/CDN pair based on the respective performance metrics of the plurality of network interface/CDN pairs; and
requesting a transmission of a segment of the content item from a CDN of the selected network interface/CDN pair via a network interface of the selected network interface/CDN pair.