Patent ID: 9621604
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining a video quality associated with a first representation of a content stream being delivered to a first client device on a shared network, wherein the content stream is available in a plurality of representations, each representation comprising a plurality of chunks of varying sizes and a manifest having an indication of a quality level and a bit rate for the representation, wherein the shared network is shared by the first device and a second device; determining network conditions for each of the first client device and the second client device, wherein determining the network conditions comprises: determining based on the determined network conditions and a quality metric for the shared network, whether a bit rate of the content stream being delivered to the first client device should be adjusted to adjust the video quality, wherein the quality metric comprises a minimum quality level for each of the content streams being delivered to the first device and the second device, wherein the quality metric further comprises a plurality of representations at plurality of quality levels for each of the content streams and corresponding bit rates for the plurality of representations, wherein determining to adjust the bit rate of the content stream comprises: communicating to the first client device to request the second representation of the content stream.