US 2019/0246182 A1 · ESTIMATING BANDWIDTH SAVINGS FOR ADAPTIVE BIT RATE STREAMING

Abstract

Example implementations involve systems and methods for determining bandwidth savings from a rate-limiting process. A network optimization node can determine a first reference characteristic of a first portion of adaptive bit rate (ABR) media data transmitted from a first content provider to a first user equipment while rate-limiting is disabled and store in an estimation module database associated with the network optimization node, the first reference characteristic in association with the first content provider. The node can determine a first rate-limited characteristic of a second portion of the ABR media data transmitted from the first content provider to at least one of the first user equipment and a second user equipment while rate-limiting is enabled and calculate a first bandwidth savings for the first content provider associated with rate-limiting being enabled based on a difference between the first reference characteristic and the first rate-limited characteristic.

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Dependent claims

A method of determining bandwidth savings from a rate-limiting process, the method comprising:

determining, by a network optimization node, a first reference characteristic of a first portion of adaptive bit rate (ABR) media data transmitted from a first content provider to a first user equipment while the rate-limiting process is disabled;
storing, by the network optimization node in an estimation module database associated with the network optimization node, the first reference characteristic in association with the first content provider;
determining, by the network optimization node, a first rate-limited characteristic of a second portion of the ABR media data transmitted from the first content provider to at least one of the first user equipment and a second user equipment while the rate-limiting process is enabled;
and
calculating, by the network optimization node, a first bandwidth savings for the first content provider associated with the rate-limiting process being enabled based on a difference between the first reference characteristic and the first rate-limited characteristic.

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A system for determining bandwidth savings from a rate limiting process, comprising:

an estimation module database;
a network optimization node associated with the estimation module database, wherein the network optimization node comprises a computer readable storage medium having instructions thereon configured to cause a processor of the network optimization node to:
determine a first reference characteristic of a first portion of adaptive bit rate (ABR) media data transmitted from a first content provider to a first user equipment while the rate-limiting process is disabled;
store in the estimation module database associated with the network optimization node, the first reference characteristic in association with the first content provider;
determine a first rate-limited characteristic of a second portion of the ABR media data transmitted from the first content provider to at least one of the first user equipment and a second user equipment while the rate-limiting process is enabled;
and
calculate a first bandwidth savings for the first content provider associated with the rate-limiting process being enabled based on a difference between the first reference characteristic and the first rate-limited characteristic.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Estimating bandwidth savings for adaptive bit rate streaming

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Estimating bandwidth savings for adaptive bit rate streaming

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Abstract

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