Patent ID: 11895172
Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing video content in a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (DASH) streaming session, the method performed by at least one processor, and comprising:
obtaining a pre-session-based description (PreSBD) information of the DASH streaming session from a PreSBD descriptor, the PreSBD information instructing a PreSBD client to generate customized session-based description (SBD) document uniform resource locator (URL) for a plurality of SBD descriptors of the DASH streaming session, and the PreSBD descriptor being separate from the plurality of SBD descriptors;
instantiating the PreSBD client and passing PreSBD descriptor information, wherein the PreSBD client is instantiated prior to instantiating any SBD descriptor among the plurality of SBD descriptors;
controlling generation of a customized SBD document URL associated with a first SBD descriptor from the plurality of SBD descriptors of the DASH streaming session; and
launching a first SBD client associated with the first SBD descriptor based on the customized SBD document URL and passing the first SBD descriptor to the first SBD client, wherein the first SBD client is among the plurality of SBD descriptors.