Methods and apparatus for intelligent selection of a transport protocol for content streaming

摘要

A method and apparatus for intelligent selection of a transport protocol for streaming content is presented. Successful use of transport protocol over each data network infrastructure is tracked for each streaming content server. Subsequent content playback requests sent to streaming content servers default to previous successfully employed transport protocol over a data network infrastructure.

主权项

1. A method for selecting a transport protocol for conveying streaming content to a mobile device, the method comprising:
tracking in a configuration repository at the mobile device previous successful use of one of a plurality of transport protocols, said tracking comprising:
attempting to convey streaming content over a data network infrastructure using said one of the plurality of transport protocols;if said attempting is successful, storing said one of the plurality of transport protocols in an entry in said configuration repository corresponding to said data network infrastructure; and defaulting to employing the previously successfully used transport protocol specified in said configuration repository corresponding to a data network infrastructure with which said mobile device is associated to provide data communications to the mobile device.