Patent ID: 9137565
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling a media system to render content, the method comprising: identifying network-based video content made available, over a network, by a content provider in response to user requests; determining a rendering time needed to begin rendering the network-based video content without caching a decoded version of the content in electronic storage associated with a media system that is configured to render the network-based video content and that is remote from the content provider; comparing, to a threshold time, the rendering time needed to begin rendering the network-based video content without caching a decoded version of the content; based on comparison results, determining whether the rendering time needed to begin rendering the network-based video content without caching a decoded version of the content exceeds the threshold time; in response to a determination that the rendering time needed to begin rendering the network-based video content without caching a decoded version of the content exceeds the threshold time: