Patent ID: 9621615
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,G11B,H04H,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A media system, comprising: an electronic device having a buffering component, a processing system, a transceiver, and a memory system, wherein the electronic device is configured to utilize HTTP to request a streaming delivery of an available media that is segmented into a series of components to facilitate delivery, wherein the series of components includes at least a given segment and an other segment; a collection of instructions stored in the memory system and operable when executed by the processing system to allow the electronic device: (1) to utilize HTTP to request the given segment; (2) to receive information representing the given segment in response; (3) to utilize HTTP to request the other segment; and (4) to receive information representing the other segment, wherein the given segment has a given compression format that is different than a compression format of the other segment; and the buffering component of the electronic device configured to output information in the given segment at a given rate associated with the given compression format and to output information in the other segment at a rate that is different than the given rate.