Patent ID: 9338486
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G11B,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for modulating an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming client engaged in a current ABR streaming session, the method comprising: anticipating, at an ABR streaming server, that a wireless UE device executing the ABR streaming client is approaching a radio white spot area; learning, by the ABR streaming server, that the ABR streaming client has a buffer for storing a fixed number of media segments for the current ABR streaming session; and responsive to the anticipating and the learning, dynamically adjusting segment sizes of a plurality of media segments to be downloaded to the ABR streaming client by calculating an optimal segment size based on how long a service outage is estimated to be while the wireless UE device is in the radio white spot area, estimated travel direction of the wireless UE device and the learned number of media segments that can be cached in the ABR streaming client's buffer.