Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bandwidth and ABR video QoE management based on OTT video providers and devices
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Application No.: US15437134Application Date: 2017-02-20
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Publication No.: US09888278B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Chris Phillips , Robert Hammond Forsman , Jennifer Ann Reynolds , Vishal Changrani
- Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Main IPC: H04N7/173
- IPC: H04N7/173 ; H04N21/2662 ; H04L29/08 ; H04N21/24 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/2543

Abstract:
An Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Quality of Experience (QoE) Management Unit manages bandwidth usage and QoE at a customer premises where multiple client devices independently download content from multiple providers. An overall virtual pipe to the premises includes a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) inner pipe, a non-HTTP inner pipe, an ABR inner pipe, and a non-ABR inner pipe. The Unit determines a data cap for a current billing cycle; and determines, based on policy management settings and the data cap for the current billing cycle, at least one of: a bandwidth cap for the overall virtual pipe, a bandwidth cap for the HTTP inner pipe, a bandwidth cap for the non-HTTP inner pipe, a bandwidth cap for the ABR inner pipe, and a bandwidth cap for the non-ABR inner pipe. Responsive to the determination of the bandwidth caps, the Unit throttles traffic within at least one of the inner pipes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180014051A1 BANDWIDTH AND ABR VIDEO QOE MANAGEMENT BASED ON OTT VIDEO PROVIDERS AND DEVICES Public/Granted day:2018-01-11
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