A method for providing immersive media, performed by at least one processor includes adding resolution description information and resolution selection strategy information to file format information of immersive media content, determining a target resolution to be provided to a client based on the resolution description information and the resolution selection strategy information of the immersive media content, and transmitting an immersive media file of the target resolution to the client.

A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for streaming immersive media. Information corresponding to a characteristic of a client associated with media content is received based on the transfer of one or more tokens. A packaging process is associated with the media content using the one or more tokens. The media content is adapted according to the characteristic of the client based on the associated packaging process.

Apparatus and methods are described for calling a database function with a URL. Many databases contain functions, also referred to as logical elements, in the database that can be called to retrieve data. A web URL can be used to call such a function by formatting the URL in a specific manner. After the URL is received, it can be parsed to determine the function and parameters, if any exist. The function in the database, specified in the URL, is called using the specified parameters, if any exist. The results can be interpreted and an appropriate response can be streamed.

Systems and methods for sharing content between devices are disclosed. To request a shared piece of media content, a playback device generates and sends a request to content server. The playback device includes information in the request that indicates the playback capabilities of the device. The content server receives the request and determines the playback capabilities of the playback device from the information in the request. The content server then determines the assets that may be used by the playback device to obtain the media content and generates a top level index file for the playback device that includes information about the determined assets. The top level index file is then sent to the playback device that may then use the top level index file to obtain the media content using the indicated assets.

A host server information handling system executing a multimedia multi-user collaboration application (MMCA) ma include a processor; a memory; a power management unit; a network interface device to receive and transmit audio/visual (AV) data during execution of the MMCA for a video conference session; the processor configured to execute a screen resolution normalization system to: initiate an out-of-band (OOB) communication with each participating endpoint device and requests data descriptive of a resolution of an presenting display at each participating endpoint device; receive the data descriptive of the resolution of the presenting displays at each participating endpoint device to every other participating endpoint device; and determine an autoscaling factor descriptive of how to upscale and downscale video frames of the AV data received at each of the participating endpoint devices based on the data descriptive of the resolution of the presenting displays; transmit the autoscaling factor based on the resolution of the presenting displays at each participating endpoint device to each participating endpoint device.

This disclosure describes techniques for configuring an edge router of a communication provider network, the edge router coupled to communicate with a plurality of media streaming playback devices. Based at least in part on an indication of characteristics associated with the plurality of media streaming playback devices, a first multicast join for the edge router is configured to the communication provider network such that one or more media servers delivers a first plurality of media streams to the edge router via the communication provider network. Based at least in part on an indication of a request for an additional media stream not included in the first plurality of media streams, a second multicast join for the edge router is configured to the communication provider network such that the one or more media servers delivers the additional media stream to the edge router via the communication provider network.

In various examples, the decoding and upscaling capabilities of a client device are analyzed to determine encoding parameters and operations used by a content streaming server to generate encoded video streams. The quality of the upscaled content of the client device may be monitored by the streaming servers such that the encoding parameters may be updated based on the monitored quality. In this way, the encoding operations of one or more streaming servers may be more effectively matched to the decoding and upscaling abilities of one or more client devise such that an increased number of client devices may be served by the streaming servers.

In various examples, the decoding and upscaling capabilities of a client device are analyzed to determine encoding parameters and operations used by a content streaming server to generate encoded video streams. The quality of the upscaled content of the client device may be monitored by the streaming servers such that the encoding parameters may be updated based on the monitored quality. In this way, the encoding operations of one or more streaming servers may be more effectively matched to the decoding and upscaling abilities of one or more client devise such that an increased number of client devices may be served by the streaming servers.

A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates data in a form to be served by a conventional file server (HTTP, FTP, or the like), wherein the ingestion system intakes content and prepares it as files or data elements to be served by the file server. A client device can be adapted to take advantage of the ingestion process. The client device might be configured to optimize use of resources, given the information available to it from the ingestion system. This may include configurations to determine the sequence, timing and construction of block requests based on monitoring buffer size and rate of change of buffer size, use of variable sized requests, mapping of block requests to underlying transport connections, flexible pipelining of requests, and/or use of whole file requests based on statistical considerations.

A method of a reception apparatus for receiving transmission frames. The method includes receiving, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, the transmission frames transmitted on one millisecond boundaries. Each of the transmission frames includes a bootstrap, a preamble, and a payload. The method further includes determining, by the circuitry, an absolute point of time at a predetermined position in a stream of the transmission frames based on first time information included in a first one of the transmission frames.