QUALCOMM Incorporated
Signaling data for prefetching support for streaming media data

Abstract:

A media device pre-fetches media data that is likely to be retrieved. An example media device includes a memory for storing media data, and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to receive information indicating at least one data structure of a plurality of data structures that is likely to be retrieved by a plurality of user devices operated by a respective plurality of users, the data structure including media data, and retrieve the media data of the data structure before receiving requests for the media data from the user devices. The information may be included in, e.g., a manifest file, a special Parameters Enhancing Delivery (PED) message, and/or a separate track of a video file multiplexed with other tracks of the video file.