Scaling content communicated over a network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsDouglas Medina, Frank Coppa, Robert Johnston
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Abstract
An architecture is provided that can scale content resolution in order to mitigate errors in a provisioned service of a communication network, such as a wireless service or a femtocell service that integrates with DSL or other broadband carriers. The architecture can identify fault conditions relating to e.g., bandwidth oversubscription or symbolization integrity. Based upon such identification, the architecture can alter encoding format codecs of certain types of content in order to reduce their resolution/quality, thereby mitigating bandwidth oversubscription fault conditions or freeing up space (without necessarily increasing bandwidth) to insert additional FEC code.
Claims20
A network device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- determining fault data indicative of a defined fault condition associated with network traffic transported by a gateway device of a communication network;
- determining a portion of the network traffic transported by the gateway device comprises content of a defined type;
- determining scaling data indicative of a scaling factor based on the defined type and the fault data;
- and
- reducing a resolution associated with the content of the defined type transported by the gateway device by the scaling factor, wherein the resolution relates to a bit rate associated with an encoding format for the content of the defined type.
A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- determining fault data indicative of a defined fault condition associated with network traffic transported by a gateway device of a communication network;
- determining a portion of the network traffic transported by the gateway device comprises content of a defined type;
- determining scaling data indicative of a scaling factor based on the defined type and the fault data;
- and
- reducing a resolution associated with the content of the defined type transported via the gateway device by the scaling factor, wherein the resolution represents a bit rate associated with an encoding format for the content of the defined type.
A method, comprising:
- determining, by a system comprising a processor, fault data indicative of a defined fault condition associated with network traffic transported by a gateway device;
- determining, by the system, a portion of the network traffic transported by the gateway device comprises content of a defined type suitable for scaling;
- determining, by the system, scaling data indicative of a scaling factor based on the defined type and the fault data;
- reducing, by the system, a resolution associated with the content of the defined type transported by the gateway device by the scaling factor, wherein the resolution relates to a bit rate associated with an encoding format for the content of the defined type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.