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

Claim 0:
1. 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;
retrieving, by the first device, from the content source, a manifest file for the media; notifying, by the first device, other devices of the plurality of devices that the manifest file 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; and
in response to determining that the first device has the highest quality connection to the content source:
retrieving, by the first device, from the content source, a first segment of the media;
storing, by the first device, the first segment in a cache of the first device; and
delivering, by the first device, via the sidelink connection, the first segment from the cache of the first device to the other devices of the plurality of devices in response to receiving requests from the other devices of the plurality of devices for the first segment.