Patent ID: 9712891
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: providing for reception of a media presentation description, wherein the media presentation description identifies a first set of one or more access methods for receiving media associated with the media presentation description, and wherein the media presentation description provides an access description element associated with each of the one or more access methods, wherein each access description element defines a set of attribute values that is unique to its associated access method; identifying a second set of one or more access methods supported by an apparatus; determining a third set of one or more access methods belonging to both the first set and the second set; and selecting an access method from the third set based at least in part on the set of attribute values contained in the access description element associated with the access method, and a future context of the apparatus using predicted route and speed of the apparatus, an expected reception bitrate or expected reception quality of a particular access method at the future context; wherein the selected access method comprises a unicast access method, a broadcast access method, or a multicast access method; and wherein selecting the access method further includes: