PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771395
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["725", "116000"]

Abstract:
A method and controller are provided for performing a non-contiguous streaming of a media stream. Such non-contiguous streaming comprises transmitting a selected portion of the media stream to the receiver while omitting transmitting at least an immediately adjacent portion of the media stream so as to enable uninterrupted play-out of the selected portion by the receiver after a pre-determined play-out delay. Such non-contiguous streaming may be advantageously used when the content bitrate exceeds the available network bandwidth. Namely, instead of streaming all of the media stream, only one or more selected and non-adjacent portions thereof are streamed, while omitting transmitting one or more intermediate portions. Effectively, the available network bandwidth may be allocated for transmitting only selected portions of the media stream to enable said portions each to be played-out uninterruptedly by the receiver after a pre-determined play-out delay and at the original content bitrate. Buffer underruns at the receiver may thereby be prevented.

Claim (Index 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the selected portion has a portion duration, and the method further comprises:\n determining the portion duration as a function of at least the content bitrate and the available network bandwidth so as to enable said uninterrupted play-out of the selected portion by the receiver after the pre-determined play-out delay.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21622
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15189591', '15705556', '15892909', '14813337', '13812558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.488468955073444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025397741542827
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4898760369815279
- Mean Citation Score: 230.124842
- Max Citation Score: 234.40474
- Similarity Product: 154.28526174547198

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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