Patent ID: 9401968
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: accessing, via a processor, information related to a media presentation description (MPD), wherein the information comprises information related to one or more segments of the MPD; causing generation, by the processor, of a request for a segment of the MPD in which the segment is based at least in part on a caching status associated with the segment of the MPD and one or more bitrate related parameters of one or more subsequent segments in one or more representations, wherein causing generation of the request for the segment of the MPD comprises: causing execution of a rate adaptation algorithm using the caching status and the one or more bitrate related parameters and causing selection of the segment based at least in part on the results of executing the rate adaptation algorithm; causing generation, by the processor, of a request for pre-fetching one or more segments different from the requested segment; and providing for transmission of the request for the segment and the request for pre-fetching the one or more different segments to a proxy cache server.