Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for monitoring whole home digital video recorder usage for internet protocol television
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Application No.: US15172961Application Date: 2016-06-03
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Publication No.: US09813747B2Publication Date: 2017-11-07
- Inventor: Kenneth Ospalik , Marisa Earnshaw , Daniel P. Malee , John Mathew , Giya Tektumanidze
- Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Guntin & Gust, PLC
- Agent Joseph Hrutka
- Main IPC: H04H60/32
- IPC: H04H60/32 ; H04N7/173 ; H04N21/2662 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/24 ; H04N21/262 ; H04N21/472 ; H04N21/61 ; H04N21/658

Abstract:
The subject disclosure describes identifying a table associated with a set-top box that receives services from equipment of a video head-end office, where the table indicates that the set-top box has requested a video stream that would exceed a first number of video streams allocated to the set-top box and would exceed a bandwidth configuration, detecting a conflicting event according to information in the table, reconfiguring the bandwidth configuration allocated to the plurality of set-top boxes to resolve the conflicting event, determining a second number of video streams requested by the plurality of set-top boxes when the conflicting event occurred, determining a third number of video streams to resolve the conflicting event based on a difference between the first number of video streams and the second number of video streams, and instructing the equipment to provide the third number of video streams to the set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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