Network-controlled time-shift live media and advertisement content play for learned abr video white spot coverage in a streaming network

An adaptive bitrate (ABR) stream delivery server for facilitating ABR live media streaming sessions in a wireless radio network environment, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• an outage area request module operating under control of the one or more processors and configured to request anticipated video outage areas with respect to a wireless user equipment (UE) device, the anticipated video outage areas being based on the wireless UE device's current location and estimated direction of travel in the wireless radio network environment;
• an advertisement request module operating under control of the one or more processors for obtaining advertisement content from an advertisement server, wherein the advertisement content is relevant with respect to the anticipated video outage areas of the wireless UE device;
• and
• a persistent memory having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, perform the following:
• determine that the wireless UE device engaged in an ABR live media streaming session has entered a video outage area;
• provide an updated manifest file to the wireless UE device, the updated manifest file including a reference to a service outage notification message and one or more references to advertisement content locally cached at the wireless UE device that is downloaded prior to the wireless UE device entering the video outage area;
• maintain a persistent connectivity state for the ABR live media streaming session and effectuate time-shifting of the ABR live media stream for a duration responsive to an estimation of how long service outage is to last depending on an estimated travel direction and an estimated speed associated with the wireless UE device;
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• when the wireless UE device exits the video outage area, provide one or more manifests to the wireless UE device including references to the time-shifted ABR live media stream.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors of a network node, facilitate adaptive bitrate (ABR) live media streaming sessions in a wireless radio network environment, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program instructions for performing:

• determining that a wireless user equipment (UE) device engaged in an ABR live media streaming session has entered a video outage area;
• providing an updated manifest file to the wireless UE device, the updated manifest file including a reference to a service outage notification message and one or more references to advertisement content locally cached at the wireless UE device that is downloaded prior to the wireless UE device entering the video outage area;
• and
• maintaining a persistent connectivity state for the ABR live media streaming session and time-shifting the ABR live media stream for a duration responsive to an estimation of how long service outage is to last depending on an estimated travel direction and an estimated speed associated with the wireless UE device.