Outage notification with client control modification in an abr streaming network
AssigneeEricsson Television Inc.
InventorsCharles Hammett Dasher, Chris Phillips
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Abstract
A scheme for modulating an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming client engaged in a current ABR streaming session. In one implementation, a determination is made whether a wireless UE device executing the ABR streaming client is approaching a radio white spot area. If so, a video buffer of the ABR client is configured to preload lower quality video segments to last for the duration of the radio white spot area. One or more ABR client controls may be selectively deactivated while the wireless UE device is in the radio white spot area.
Claims21
A method for modulating an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming client engaged in a current ABR streaming session, the method comprising:
- determining that a wireless UE device executing the ABR streaming client is approaching a radio white spot area;
- and
- allowing deactivation of one or more ABR client controls while the wireless UE device is in the radio white spot area.
A wireless user equipment (UE) device, comprising:
- an adaptive bitrate (ABR) buffer for storing media segments encoded at different bitrates pursuant to an ABR streaming session;
- an ABR client player configured to play back content out of the ABR buffer;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to a persistent memory having program instructions for controlling the ABR client player to disable at least one ABR client player control when the wireless UE device is in a radio white spot area.
A network subsystem configured to modulate an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming client engaged in a current ABR streaming session, the network subsystem comprising:
- an adaptive bitrate (ABR) stream delivery server for facilitating ABR streaming sessions in a wireless radio network environment;
- a video outage and Quality of Service (QoS) datastore having geographic location data pertaining to areas where radio coverage is suboptimal for streaming content to a wireless user equipment (UE) device executing the ABR streaming client;
- and
- a video outage awareness and notification node coupled to the ABR stream delivery server and the video outage and QoS datastore,
- wherein the video outage awareness and notification node is adapted to:
- determine, responsive to a location update from the wireless UE device, that the wireless UE device is approaching a radio white spot area;
- and
- provide a notification to the wireless UE device that one or more ABR client controls will be disabled while the wireless UE device is in the radio white spot area.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors of a wireless user equipment (UE) device disposed in an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming network environment, facilitate modulation of player controls of an ABR client player executing on the wireless UE device, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:
- a code portion for processing a notification that the wireless UE device is entering a video outage area of the ABR streaming network environment for a time interval;
- and
- a code portion for allowing deactivation of one or more player controls of the ABR client player for the time interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.