Patent ID: 9444856
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method operative in a streaming client device disposed in an adaptive streaming environment, the method comprising: monitoring at least a bandwidth condition relative to a network connection between the streaming client device and a content delivery network; determining one or more adjacent channels relative to a current streaming channel of the streaming client device; pre-fetching metadata information associated with the one or more adjacent channels; responsive to the pre-fetched metadata information, pre-fetching and storing initialization information for the one or more adjacent channels; if the current streaming channel is changed to a new streaming channel belonging to the one or more adjacent channels, using the pre-fetched initialization information to fetch encoded media content pertaining to the new streaming channel, the encoded media content comprising shortest segments into which the encoded media content has been segmented by a segmentation server system associated with the content delivery network; and after determining that the new streaming channel has settled for a select time period, sending a request for streaming media content for the new streaming channel in segments larger than the shortest segments.