Program handoff between devices and program network offloading

摘要

Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage mediums provide a program handoff between user devices. The program handoff permits a user to select a user device with which to resume a playing of the program. The program handoff also permits a user to set a reminder for playing the program. Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage mediums provide for an application layer-based network offloading of programs. A program is buffered based on a network offloading time and the program is played from a buffer during an execution of a network offload. Network offload prediction is used to minimize network offload time and buffering.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
establishing, by a user device, a connection with a network; receiving, by the user device, a video program via the network; buffering, by the user device, upon initially receiving the video program and before initially playing the video program, a portion of the video program based on a network offloading time, wherein the network offloading time corresponds to a period of time to complete a network offloading; determining, by the user device and subsequent to the buffering, whether the network offloading to another network is to be performed; and playing, by the user device, the portion of the video program or a subsequently buffered portion of the video program during an execution of the network offloading, in response to the determining that the network offloading is to be performed, wherein the subsequently buffered portion of the video program is based on the network offloading time.