Patent ID: 9258343
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A streaming data downloading method, adapted for a video player to download a video file from a video server via the Internet, comprising: sending a request to the video server for downloading the video file, so as to download buffering data from beginning of a buffering section of the video file; calculating a downloading time for completely downloading the buffering data; dividing the downloading time into multiple time sections for downloading the buffering data corresponding to the multiple sections from the video server separately, wherein the multiple time sections are calculated based on an exponential function such that the time lengths of the multiple time sections are exponentially increasing; selecting at least one of the multiple time sections as a downloading section, and requesting to the video server for downloading data of the downloading section, in order to establish multiple downloading channels corresponding to a channel quantity; and downloading the data of multiple downloading sections simultaneously according to the multiple downloading channels.