US 12,732,551 B1 · Data-communication apparatuses and methods involving relevance based network queuing

Abstract

In one non-limiting example a computer-implemented server method involves receiving data-communication packets from a plurality of user-operable endpoints in a data-communications conference, and accounts for relevance of the packets for a particular data-communications conference (or meeting) and for system-based communications constraints before assigning and mapping a ranking value to the packets at an application layer of a communications network protocol. The ranking value of the packets at the application layer is then used to set a priority of the received packets for transmission to the participant of the meeting, for example, by a media server (e.g., relevance-based smart server) which is configured with access to moderator- or algorithm (e.g., adapted ML/AI algorithm) provided data about the conference in real-time (or near real-time) including contextually relevant datasets custom to a specific application/service of a software platform (e.g., cloud-based communications platform).

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a media server, data-communication packets from a plurality of user-operable endpoints in a data-communications conference;
assigning a ranking value (P) from among possible ranking values (P1-PN) including at least one higher value and a plurality of lower values, based on (1) a determined relevance (R) of one of the data-communication packets from one of the plurality of user-operable endpoints and (2) one or more constraints (C) associated with the data-communications conference, to the one of the data-communication packets received from the one of the plurality of user-operable endpoints, wherein the ranking value (P) is based on a mapping as a function of R and C in accordance with the relationship P:
R×C→{P1, . . . PN};
and
mapping the ranking value at an application layer of a communications network protocol to an appropriate packet at a network layer, wherein the act of mapping causes the one of the data-communication packets to be conveyed during the data-communications conference with more urgency than other ones of the data-communication packets respectively received from other ones of the plurality of user-operable endpoints.

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An apparatus comprising:

a media server to receive data-communication packets from a plurality of user-operable endpoints in a data-communications conference;
and
computing-processor circuitry, linked with the media server, and configured to
assign a ranking value (P) from among possible ranking values (P1-PN) including at least one higher value and a plurality of lower values, based on (1) a determined relevance (R) of certain of the data-communication packets of from one of the plurality of user-operable endpoints and (2) one or more constraints (C) associated with the data-communications conference, to different sets of the one of the data-communication packets respectively received from different ones the one of the plurality of user-operable endpoints, wherein the ranking value (P) is based on a mapping as a function of R and C in accordance with the relationship P:
R×C→{P1 . . . PN};
and
map the ranking value at an application layer of a communications network protocol to an appropriate packet at a network layer, wherein the mapped ranking value causes the one of the data-communication packets to be conveyed during the data-communications conference with more urgency than other ones of the data-communication packets respectively received from other ones of the plurality of user-operable endpoints.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Data-communication apparatuses and methods involving relevance based network queuing

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Data-communication apparatuses and methods involving relevance based network queuing

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Abstract

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