Patent ID: 11936711
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A system for media delivery in a cooperative streaming environment, the system comprising:
transceiver circuitry; and
control circuitry configured to:
create a sidelink connection between each device of a plurality of devices, wherein a first device of the plurality of devices is not connected to a content source for the media;
cause retrieval, using the transceiver circuitry, from the content source, of a first version of a segment of the media encoded at a first quality level;
store the first version of the segment in a cache of at least one device of the plurality of devices;
determine whether a sidelink connection quality level is sufficient to transmit the first version of the segment to other devices of the plurality of devices; and
in response to determining that the sidelink connection quality level is not sufficient to transmit the first version of the segment to the other devices of the plurality of devices:
cause retrieval, using the transceiver circuitry, from the content source, of a second version of the segment of the media encoded at a second quality level, wherein the second quality level is lower than the first quality level;
store the second version of the segment in the cache of at least one device of the plurality of devices; and

cause transmission, using the transceiver circuitry, in response to a request from the first device, via the sidelink connection, for the segment, of the second version of the segment to the first device.