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

Claim 35:
36. A system for media delivery in cooperative device-to-device communications, the system being implemented on a first device of a plurality of devices that is not connected to a content source of the media, the system comprising:
transceiver circuitry; and
control circuitry configured to:
create a sidelink connection between each device of the plurality of devices, wherein a second device of the plurality of devices is connected to the content source for the media;
receive, using the transceiver circuitry, via the sidelink connection, a notification from the first device that a manifest file for the media is available from the second device;
determine, based on connection metrics of each device of the plurality of devices, that the second device has the highest quality connection to the content source;
in response to determining that the second device has the highest quality connection to the content source, transmit, using the transceiver circuitry, via the sidelink connection, a request for a segment of the media to the second device, the segment having been retrieved by the second device from the content source and stored in a cache of the second device; and
receive, using the transceiver circuitry, via the sidelink connection, the requested segment from the first device.