US Patent 9137278 Managing streaming bandwidth for multiple clients

A method, system and a computer program product. The method may include: selecting, for each requested media file, a selected version of the media file based on (a) bit rates of the different versions of the requested media file, and (b) a bit rate allocated for a transmission of the requested media file to the client; generating a modified manifest file for each requested media file by removing retrieval information associated with all non-selected versions of requested media files; wherein each modified manifest file comprises retrieval information required only for a retrieval of a selected version of a requested media file associated with the modified manifest file; and sending to clients the modified manifest files.