Patent ID: 10601886

Abstract:
A method of enabling a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, DASH, player to fetch media segments from a network, wherein said method comprises the steps of receiving, by a DASH Aware Network Element, DANE, middleware, from said network, a manifest, wherein said manifest comprises a representation base Uniform Resource Identifier, URI, for indicating a location to said DASH player for fetching said media segments, a default representation base URI which is available in a default mode for fetching said media segments from a default content delivery network, CDN, a secondary representation base URI which is available in a secondary mode for fetching said media segments from a secondary CDN, transmitting, by said DANE middleware, said manifest to said DASH player, transmitting, by said DANE middleware, to said DASH player, a ManifestModificationCommand message, wherein said ManifestModificationCommand message comprises one or more representation base URI's of any of said default representation base URI and said secondary representation base URI that are to modify a representation base URI in said manifest.