Management of the adaptive progressive download of digital content over the mobile network with determination of a maximum encoding rate allowed over a session based on a bucket of data

摘要

Management of the adaptive progressive download of digital content over the mobile network with determination of a maximum encoding rate allowed over a session based on a bucket of data The invention relates to a method for managing the adaptive progressive download (HAS) of digital content within a multimedia stream reader terminal connected to a mobile communication network. Digital content is associated with a description file, comprising a list of content time segments, each associated with multiple content encoding rates. A maximum volume of data to be consumed within the mobile communication network during a session, called a data bucket, is allocated to the multimedia stream reader terminal. According to the invention, such a method comprises: an estimate (406), as a function of a volume of data consumed by adaptive progressive downloading of digital content during at least one period by the multimedia stream reader terminal, of a volume of data which could be consumed by the terminal by adaptive progressive download of digital content during the session; determining (407) a maximum allowed encoding rate for downloading time segments of digital content during the session so that the estimated data volume is less than or equal to a determined consumption threshold of the data bucket. Figure for the abstract: Fig 4