Patent ID: 9584573
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method performed by a streaming client device, the method comprising: obtaining external device information from one or more external audio/visual (ANV) devices connected to the streaming client device; registering with a subscriber policy management system to add the external device information of the one or more external AN devices in a subscriber profile associated with the streaming client device; effectuating a streaming content policy server to assign a specific priority weight, responsive to the external device information, for adaptively streaming content to the streaming client device via a content delivery network; receiving manifest files responsive to a streaming session request for a particular content, the manifest files including a plurality of encoding bitrates and one or more pointers to content segments of the particular content; and using the plurality of encoding bitrates and the one or more pointers included in the manifest files for obtaining appropriate content segments based at least in part upon the external device information when the particular content is requested by the streaming client device.