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Automatic selection of media representations

  • US 10,303,692 B2
  • Filed: 01/22/2015
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed on a computing device that includes at least one processor, memory, and a universal plug and play (“

  • UPnP”

    ) control point, the method comprising;

    evaluating, by the UPnP control point, metadata associated with a plurality of representations of a particular media content including one or more of images, movies, or music;

    using the evaluation, determining an encoding bit rate for each representation;

    using the evaluation, determining whether or not each representation is transcoded;

    ranking, by the UPnP control point, each representation of the plurality of representations of the particular media content, based on scoring applied to the determinations for the encoding bit rate and whether each representation is transcoded;

    selecting, by the UPnP control point based on the ranking, at least one of the ranked representations of the particular media content;

    operating the computing device to manage utilization of available networking resources to download the particular media content within the selected representations, in which the evaluated metadata associated with the plurality of representations is utilized to select the at least one representation that is supported by the computing device or a target renderer; and

    rendering the selected and supported representation using the target renderer.

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