摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method in which adaptive download on a low-capacity link such as in a wireless environment does not suddenly downshift, depending on situations, to a snail's pace causing stalls in the middle of a video.SOLUTION: A client device for receiving information regarding multimedia data is configured to determine a byte range of a file of a representation of multimedia content to request from a server device, form a uniform resource locator (URL) that specifies, in a file path portion of the URL, according to a template, the file and the byte range in accordance with requirements of a source device, and issue a GET request that specifies the formed URL to the source device.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 |