Patent ID: 9660926
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A streaming management method, comprising: sending, by a computer device, a first plurality of requests for a plurality of concurrently-active media streams; receiving, at the computing device, a control input to control a playback function of at least one of the plurality of concurrently-active media streams; determining, by the computing device, a download bandwidth between the computing device and a media source on a network; classifying, by the computing device, the plurality of concurrently-active media streams based on the control input and total download bandwidth; and sending, by the computing device, a second plurality of requests for the plurality of concurrently-active media streams over a single connection to the media source, the second plurality of requests representing an alteration of the first plurality of requests according to the classification.