Patent ID: 9253103
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling streaming media flows, the method comprising: allocating or receiving allocated bit rates to a plurality of streaming media flows, each streaming media flow comprises a plurality of chunks and is expected to flow over a last mile channel that is bandwidth limited; receiving, by a system, a plurality of chunk requests from clients that are hosted on user devices, each chunk request indicates a requested bit rate for streaming a media chunk that belongs to the streaming media flow; wherein the last mile channel is located downstream to the system; changing, by the system, at least one chunk request to comply with an allocated bit rate, when the requested bit rate does not comply with the allocated bit rate, to provide at least one new chunk request; wherein the changing of the at least chunk request is performed without notifying at least client that is associated with the at least one chunk request; and sending the at least one new chunk request to a media streamer that is expected to stream the streaming media flow to a user device of the user devices.