Patent ID: 11871079
Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform a method to be implemented at a client device for managing a streaming session of a multimedia content received from a communication network, said method comprising:
obtaining, for representations of the multimedia content having multiple segments, a frame size of a first frame of a next segment to be requested;
obtaining, for the representations of the multimedia content, a download time for the first frame of the next segment to be requested from a ratio of the obtained frame size of the first frame of the next segment to be requested over an available bandwidth; and
requesting a representation from among the representations based on the obtained download time of the representation being equal to or below a reference time.