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

Claim 8:
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
detecting that the sidelink connection quality level has increased;
determining whether the increased sidelink connection quality level is sufficient to transmit a first version of a second segment of the media encoded at the first quality level;
in response to determining that the increased sidelink connection quality level is sufficient to transmit the first version of the second segment:
causing retrieval, from the content source, of the first version of the second segment;
storing the first version of the second segment in the cache of at least one device of the plurality of devices; and
causing transmission, in response to a request from the first device, via the sidelink connection, for the second segment, of the first version of the second segment to the first device.