method for operating network equipment arranged along a transmission path between a client terminal and at least one server, and corresponding network equipment

摘要

"Method for operating network equipment arranged along a transmission path between a client terminal and at least one server, and corresponding network equipment". The present invention relates to network equipment (GW) configured to be arranged along a transmission path between a client terminal and at least one server, said network equipment being configured to receive a request from the client terminal. client for a first representation of a segment of multimedia content available in various representations, said request further specifying one or more alternate representations of said segment, comprising: - a filtering module (16) configured to modify said request by removing each alternative representation of the request, whose associated throughput is higher than at least one downstream bandwidth obtained along a transmission path between a server and the client terminal; a communication module (11) configured to send the modified request to an upstream network element disposed between the network equipment (gw) and the server.