Dynamic adaptive streaming proxy for unicast or broadcast/multicast services
First Claim
1. A method for controlling an encoding format of multimedia content for a multimedia client of a wireless communications network (WCN), the method comprising:
- modifying, at a proxy component of a WCN network entity, a data structure controlled by an entity residing outside of the WCN comprising different locators for representations of a multimedia content available for transport by the WCN, wherein the representations are associated with respective different encoding formats, to obtain a modified data structure based on compatibility with a service level supported by the WCN; and
controlling an encoding format for the multimedia content provided to at least one multimedia client, at least in part by the modified data structure.
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Abstract
Techniques are provided for a dynamic adaptive streaming proxy for unicast or broadcast/multicast service. For example, a method for controlling an encoding format of multimedia content for a multimedia client of a wireless communications network (WCN) includes modifying, at a proxy component of the WCN network entity, a data structure that associates one or more different locators for multimedia content with respective different encoding formats for the multimedia content, to obtain a modified data structure. The method may include controlling an encoding format for the multimedia content provided to at least one multimedia client, at least in part by the modified data structure.
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57 Claims
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1. A method for controlling an encoding format of multimedia content for a multimedia client of a wireless communications network (WCN), the method comprising:
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modifying, at a proxy component of a WCN network entity, a data structure controlled by an entity residing outside of the WCN comprising different locators for representations of a multimedia content available for transport by the WCN, wherein the representations are associated with respective different encoding formats, to obtain a modified data structure based on compatibility with a service level supported by the WCN; and controlling an encoding format for the multimedia content provided to at least one multimedia client, at least in part by the modified data structure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for controlling an encoding format of multimedia content provided to a multimedia client of a wireless communications network (WCN), the system comprising:
means for modifying, at a proxy component of the WCN network entity, a data structure received from a content server comprising different locators for representations of a multimedia content available for transport by the WCN, wherein the representations are associated with respective different encoding formats, to obtain a modified data structure based on compatibility with a service level supported by the WCN, thereby controlling an encoding format for the multimedia content provided to at least one multimedia client. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system for controlling an encoding format of multimedia content provided to a multimedia client of a wireless communications network (WCN), comprising:
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at least one processor configured for modifying a data structure received from a content server comprising different locators for representations of a multimedia content available for transport by the WCN, wherein the representations are associated with respective different encoding formats, to obtain a modified data structure based on compatibility with a service level supported by the WCN, and operating as a proxy component of a WCN network entity between the at least one multimedia client and the content server to control an encoding format for the multimedia content provided to at least one multimedia client; and a memory coupled to the at least one processor for storing data. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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- 44. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising code for modifying a data structure received from a content server comprising different locators for representations of a multimedia content available for transport by the WCN, wherein the representations are associated with respective different encoding formats, to obtain a modified data structure based on compatibility with a service level supported by the WCN, and operating as a proxy component of a WCN network entity between the at least one multimedia client and the content server to control an encoding format for the multimedia content provided to at least one multimedia client.
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