Patent ID: 9681175
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for downloading multimedia contents performed within a content receiver and comprising: sending a request to receive at least one chunk identified by an item of information representative of a temporal position i and by an item of information representative of a version j, determining said item of information representative of a temporal position i of a chunk to be downloaded before the end of a temporal interval ti′ such that a maximum download duration of said content is divided into temporal intervals, and an average number of chunks to download per each temporal interval is determined in order to have a total download duration of said content less than the maximum download duration of said content, the determining further comprising: determining said item of information representative of a version j according to an available transmission bit rate so that the chunk identified by the item of information representative of the determined temporal position i and by the item of information representative of the version j are downloaded before the end of the temporal interval ti′, and receiving said identified chunk.