MEDIA STREAMING WITH LATENCY MINIMZATION

摘要

Minimizing latency when streaming media, such as but not necessary limited to limiting or otherwise ameliorating polling latency, network response latency and/or other communication related latencies, is contemplated. The latency minimization may include facilitating long polling or otherwise facilitating instantaneously transmitting requested media once available.

主权项

1. A method for minimizing latency when streaming a media content component according to Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) comprising:
determining availability attributes associated with one or more of a plurality of segments forming the media content component, the availability attributes indicating when corresponding ones of the plurality of segments are available for transmission from a server configured to stream the media content component to a client using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP); and facilitating a first segment request associated with requesting transmission of a first segment of the plurality of segments from the server to the client prior to the availability attributes associated therewith indicating the first segment to be available for transmission.