US 2015/0040162 A1 · DYNAMIC SPLITTING OF EVOLVED MULTICAST BROADCAST MULTIMEDIA SERVICE (EMBMS)

Abstract

A reporting server receives reports on unicast and/or broadcast multimedia content items being accessed by respective user equipment (UE) devices through a network. The reporting server determines, for each multimedia content item, a number of UE devices that are accessing the multimedia content item and whether it is being unicast or broadcast. The reporting server ranks the multimedia content items by the number of UE devices accessing each item. In several disclosed examples, a broadcast video provisioning system switches unicast transmissions to broadcast transmissions based on the ranked list, based on this ranking and possibly on the available unicast and broadcast bandwidth.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a reporting server and via a network, respective reports on multimedia content items being accessed by user equipment (UE) devices in a service venue served by the network;
determining, by the reporting server, for each multimedia content item being accessed, a number of UE devices that are accessing the multimedia content item and whether the multimedia content item is being unicast or broadcast;
ranking, by the reporting server, the multimedia content items by the number of UE devices accessing each multimedia content item into a ranked list;
and
sending, by the reporting server, the ranked list to a broadcast video provisioning system (BVPS).

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A system comprising:

a reporting server in a communications network serving a service venue, the reporting server including a processor and a communications interface, the processor of the reporting server being configured:
to receive, via the communications interface of the reporting server, respective reports on multimedia content items being accessed by user equipment (UE) devices in the service venue through the network;
to determine, for each multimedia content item, a number of UE devices that are accessing the multimedia content item and whether the multimedia content item is being unicast or broadcast;
to rank the multimedia content items by the number of UE devices accessing each multimedia content item into a ranked list;
and
to send the ranked list to a broadcast video provisioning system (BVPS) server in the communications network;
and
the BVPS server including a processor and a communications interface, the processor of the BVPS server being configured:
to receive the ranked list;
to switch multimedia content items currently being unicast to be broadcast based on the ranking of the selected multimedia content items in the ranked list.

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A system comprising:

a reporting server in a communications network, the reporting server including a processor and a communications interface, the processor of the reporting server being configured:
to receive, via the communications interface of the reporting server, respective reports on multimedia content items listed in an electronic program guide (EPG) provided to UE devices connected to the network, the report indicating multimedia content items in the EPG that user of the user equipment (UE) devices want to access;
to determine, for each multimedia content item, a number of UE devices that want to access the multimedia content item;
to rank the multimedia content items by the number of UE devices that want to access each multimedia content item into a ranked list;
and
to send the ranked list to a broadcast video provisioning system (BVPS).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/955,677Filed 31 Jul 2013

Published

5 Feb 2015

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

H04N 21/2402
Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests: monitoring of the downstream path of…
H04N 21/266
Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client…:…
H04N 21/6405
Addressing: multicasting
H04N 21/6408
Addressing: unicasting

Dynamic splitting of evolved multicast broadcast multimedia service (embms)

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Dynamic splitting of evolved multicast broadcast multimedia service (embms)

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Abstract

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