Patent ID: 11924497
Assignee: DISH NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A video streaming method performed by a video player device receiving inputs from a remote control, wherein the remote control comprises an accelerometer, the video streaming method comprising:
monitoring to detect a movement of the remote control based upon signals generated by the accelerometer of the remote control;
analyzing the detected movement of the remote control to identify a pattern of movement of the remote control;
determining if the identified pattern of movement corresponds to an initiation of video streaming of a streaming video content with a probability beyond a threshold level;
responsive to determining that the identified pattern of movement corresponds to the initiation of video streaming with the probability beyond the threshold level and prior to receiving subsequent commands from the remote control that initiate playback of the streaming video content, immediately beginning preloading of the streaming video content by at least partially filling a playback buffer of the video player device, wherein the streaming video content comprises a video data and a meta data, and wherein the preloading of streaming video content to the video player device comprises preloading both the video data and the meta data; and
upon receipt of the subsequent commands, immediately providing the preloaded streaming video content previously stored in the playback buffer for immediate playback of the streaming video content.