Priority-based tile transmission system and method for panoramic video streaming [patent]
Publication date
November 3, 2020
Inventors
Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Zhengye Liu, Feng Qian (assistant professor)
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system with a processor, a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations including receiving a request that identifies a first list of tiles for streaming a panoramic video, determining a first total number of data packets required to transmit tiles in the first list of tiles, maintaining a second total number of empty data packets enqueued into a transport control protocol (TCP) buffer, maintaining a third total number of empty data packets dequeued from the TCP buffer, and enqueuing empty data packets into the TCP buffer whenever the first total number of data packets is greater than a difference between the second total number of empty data packets and the third total number of empty data packets. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Link to patent application
Priority-based tile transmission system and method for panoramic video streaming