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

Claim 12:
13. A method for media delivery in cooperative device-to-device communications, the method comprising:
creating a sidelink connection between each device of a plurality of devices, wherein a first device of the plurality of devices is connected to a content source for the media and a second device of the plurality of devices is not connected to the content source for the media;
receiving, at the second device, a notification from the first device that a manifest file for the media is available from the first device;
determining, based on connection metrics of each device of the plurality of devices, that the first device has the highest quality connection to the content source;
in response to determining that the first device has the highest quality connection to the content source, transmitting, by the second device, via the sidelink connection, a request for a segment of the media to the first device, the segment having been retrieved by the first device from the content source and stored in a cache of the first device; and
receiving, at the second device, via the sidelink connection, the requested segment from the first device.