INTELLIGENT STREAMING TO A MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

Intelligent streaming of multimedia content is provided. Based on various conditions and signals detected by a mobile device, an activity state of the mobile device that indicates whether viewing of a video portion of streaming multimedia content is desirable or likely may be determined. A server streaming the multimedia content, upon receiving from the mobile device either a request to eliminate the video portion streaming multimedia content or a status update that the video portion is not viewable or is not likely being viewed, is configured to replace streaming of the multimedia content with both audio and video portions with streaming of the multimedia content containing the audio portion but without the video portion.

主权项

1. A method, comprising steps of:
streaming of a version of multimedia content comprising video content and associated audio content through a wireless mobile data communication network for receipt by a mobile device; and responsive to a predetermined activity state of the mobile device indicating that the multimedia content should be provided without video output replacing the streaming of the version of the multimedia content comprising video content and associated audio content through the wireless mobile data communication network with streaming of a version of the multimedia content comprising the associated audio content without the video content through the wireless mobile data communication network for receipt by the mobile device.