Patent ID: 11877019
Assignee: V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A mobile computing device comprising:
a computer processor;
an integrated display;
a communications port; and
a decoder capable of decoding encoded video data received via the communications port, the decoder having a decoder capability, the decoder capability comprising at least one of maximum frame size, maximum color depth and maximum frame rate,
wherein the computer processor is configured to:
identify a target version of a desired video content for streaming from a video streaming server communicatively coupled to the communications port, the target version having been encoded to a desired target value of at least one encoding attribute, the at least one encoding attribute comprising at least one of a frame size, color depth and frame rate for display of the desired video content on the integrated display, and the desired target value being less than a maximum value of the encoding attribute which is decodable by the device;
request, from the video streaming server, to stream the target version of the desired video content even though a data communication speed from the video streaming server to the device via the communications port is sufficient to stream a version of the desired video content that is encoded at a higher value of the encoding attribute decodable and displayable by the device; and
receive at the device the identified and requested target version of the desired video content.