Patent ID: 11863814
Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:
receive, at a client device, video stream data from a video streaming source;
select a specified rebuffering point from among a plurality of potential rebuffering points that are currently available for selection within the video stream data according to a determined level of need for rebuffering at the time of selecting, such that a first rebuffering point is selected at a determined first level of need and a second, different rebuffering point is selected at a second, different level of need; and
pause playback of the video stream data at the selected rebuffering point.