Abstract:
In a method of provisioning and configuration of services for a plurality of user devices associated with a user subscribing to the services at a service provider, where the user devices are arranged in a personal network of the user and associated with a plurality of gateway devices in the network, providing S10 a list of the user devices at an intermediate server device, receiving a requests S20 for provisioning, at the intermediate server device, on at least one user device. Subsequently, the server device initiates S30 provisioning on at least one user device. Finally, the list is updated S40 at the server device, and the server device optionally notifies S50 the service provider of the update.
Abstract:
A first host (60), computer readable medium and method for providing a specialized software package (24) to a second host (70). The method includes initializing, at the first host (60), an application (90) on the first host (60) for communicating with a corresponding application (100) on the second host (70); sending, from the first host (60), a message for verifying a presence of the specialized software package (24) on the second host (70); pushing, when the specialized software package (24) is not present on the second host (70), the specialized software package (24) from the first host (60) to the second host (70); performing, at the first host (60), a specialized activity based on the specialized software package (24) at the first host (60) and the specialized software package (24) at the second host (70); and receiving at the application (90) of the first host (60), a result of the specialized activity, wherein the result of the specialized activity is used by the application (90) at the first host (60) to communicate with the corresponding application (100) on the second host (70).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and system hardware for ingesting media content in a peer-to-peer network from a data stream. The data stream is made up of a sequence of packets of media data, and each packet is identified by a sequence identifier. The method includes commencing caching of the data packets from the data stream. A missing data packet is identified using the sequence identifiers of the packets and the size of the missing data packet is determined. A portion of the memory medium is skipped to provide a skipped portion of medium having no data cached therein. The skipped portion has a size corresponding to the determined size of the missing data packet. The missing data packet is then retrieved and inserted into the skipped portion of the memory medium. The system includes an ingestion element configured to receive the content in a data stream, to define blocks of media data that make up the content, to generate metadata associated with each block, the metadata identifying the construction of the block from the data stream, and to transmit the data stream as a multicast stream to other network nodes. The other network nodes include at least one cache element configured to construct at least one of the blocks from the multicast data stream in accordance with the metadata, and to cache the data block. The system also includes a database accessible to network nodes, the database recording a location of each of the cached data blocks in the network.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for enabling remote access to a local gateway (302) of a local network from a remote device (300) located outside the local network. Capabilities and credentials of the remote device and of the local gateway are configured independently in an IMS core (304) for the remote access. One or more users are also authorised for remote access to the local network by adding an IMS identity of each authorised user to an IMS based ACL (Access Control List). An access request to the local gateway from the remote device will be accepted if the IMS identity of the remote device user is present in the IMS based ACL. A remote access connection can then be established by means of the configured capabilities and credentials of the remote device and the local gateway.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a telecommunication node (1000), such as a home gateway, and a method for routing data packets received from customer premises devices (1411) connected to said node (1000). The node (1000) comprises two tables, an operator (1300) configurable service profile table (1043) and a user (1450) configurable customer devices table (1042). The service profile table (1043) comprises at least one service profile (2011) and the customer premises device table (1042) comprises the source addresses (MAC1) of the customer premises devices (1411) and associations between each source address (MAC1) and at least one of the service profiles (2011). Using the invention the operator (1300) is given control over the service provision, while the user (1450) can freely allocate the devices (1411) to different service profiles (2011) and can access a plurality of services from the same device (1411).
Abstract:
A method of ensuring an end-to-end Quality of Service for calls traversing an IP Multimedia Subsystem. The method comprises interposing a Home IP Multimedia Subsystem Gateway at the control plane between the IP Multimedia Subsystem and at least one non-SIP client. At the Home IP Multimedia Subsystem Gateway, SIP signalling is exchanged with a remote client on behalf of said non-SIP client, the Gateway performing a mapping between a media type identified within the SDP part of one or more SIP messages and a Quality of Service type specified for a protocol used to control the Quality of Service in the call leg between the non-SIP client and a Residential Gateway. The call leg is configured in accordance with the mapped Quality of Service type.
Abstract:
Methods, devices and software enable uploading a file from a user equipment to an Internet storage service server via a mobile cellular network. A method includes (A) uploading sequential chunks of the file from the user equipment via a cell of the mobile cellular network, (B) sending a first message requesting to pause the uploading, to the user equipment upon receiving an indication that the cell is overloaded, (C) storing a length corresponding to the sequential chunks that have been uploaded until the uploading has been paused, and (D) sending a second message requesting to resume the uploading, to the user equipment. The user equipment pauses the uploading upon receiving the first message and resumes the uploading using an offset from the beginning of the file corresponding to the length upon receiving the second message.
Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for brokered expedited checkout for e-shopping in telecommunication networks are provided. An apparatus is configured to facilitate checkout for a purchase by a user using user equipment from an e-shop in a telecommunication network. The apparatus has a processing unit configured to authorize the user, to access information related to the user, to respond to queries related to the user based on the information, and to mediate between a payment system and the e-shop in order to pay for the purchase.
Abstract:
An optimization engine embodied in an apparatus or a method is configured to control delivering content from a content source provider to a content user (UE) in a telecommunication network, by select a scenario from a plurality of possible scenarios, for delivering the content to the content user. The scenario is selected taking into consideration one or more of a viewer abandonment rate, a time of day, a UE's battery energy consumption associated with each of the possible scenarios, an amount of network signaling associated with each of the possible scenarios, preferences of the content provider, preferences of the content user, a type of the content to be delivered and a current network load.
Abstract:
Method and radio network controller of a mobile telecommunication network for providing DNS redirection in a mobile telecommunication network. The radio network controller includes an interface configured to receive a DNS query from a mobile terminal and a domain name system, DNS, interceptor module. The DNS interceptor module is configured to intercept the DNS query from the mobile terminal, detect the indication of the content originator server or the content delivery provider, check the indication against a list of domain names handled by the radio network controller, and generate a DNS reply in response to the DNS query, the DNS reply including an IP address of a content server associated with the radio network controller and not including an IP address of the content delivery provider. The interface is configured to send the DNS reply to the mobile terminal.