Patent ID: 8612552
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of buffering streaming data from a server at a server data rate via a network to at least one terminal device at a terminal reception data rate, the method comprising: requesting a streaming session from the server by the terminal device; forwarding streaming data from the server to the network at a server data rate and from the network to the terminal device at a reception data rate; buffering data received from the network in a terminal buffer of the terminal for at least a first period; rendering the buffered data, after the first period, at a first rendering rate which is lower than the server data rate; and adapting the first rendering data rate according to a filling of the terminal buffer with received streaming data until the rendering data rate substantially equals the server data rate, wherein the adapting of the first rendering data rate occurs in a plurality of steps and a total number of the plurality of steps depends upon audio time stretcher quality.