Patent ID: 9521180
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a client device configured to adaptively stream media content comprising multiple media information layers, wherein to adaptively stream the media content, the client device is configured: to obtain, in a first time window, portions of a first set of the multiple media information layers, to obtain, in a second time window after the first time window, portions of a second set of the multiple media information layers, the second set differing from the first set depending, at least in part, on whether the first set was timely received or at least one terminal condition at the client device changed, and to render, by a processing unit, a media content stream, wherein the first and second time windows are each the time to render a portion of a set of the multiple media information layers, wherein to render the media content stream, the client device is configured to combine the portions of the first set of multiple media information layers and to combine the portions of the second set of the multiple media information layers.