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US 2022/0191872 A1Published application
Resource management concept
AssigneeFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
InventorsThomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Yago SANCHEZ DE LA FUENTE
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Abstract
Resource management such as network radio resource management in wireless networks, is described in connection with different aspects.
Claims10
1-10. (canceled)
User entity for communicating via communication resources, on which a client is operative, wherein the user entity comprises
- an electronic circuit, or a microprocessor, configured to
- determine a fill level of a buffer of the client for buffering a media content retrieved by the client from a server,
- derive a set of parameters from a media presentation description received from the server, the set of parameters indicating a bandwidth for each of the versions of different bandwidths of the media content, and
- inform a resource manager responsible for assigning the communication resources to a plurality of user entities to which the user entity belongs, on the fill level, and
- wherein the communication resources are radio resources, and
- wherein the user entity is configured to inform the resource manager on the fill level via messages which indicate, as a first addressee, the resource manager, wherein the first addressee is different from a second addressee as which the server is indicated by media requests sent from the client to the server in order to retrieve the media content from the server.
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Method for being performed on a user entity on which a client is operative, the user entity communicating via communication resources, the method comprising
- determining a fill level of a buffer of the client for buffering a media content retrieved by the client from a server,
- deriving a set of parameters from a media presentation description received from the server, the set of parameters indicating a bandwidth for each of the versions of different bandwidths of the media content, and
- informing a resource manager responsible for assigning the communication resources to a plurality of user entities to which the user entity belongs, on the determined fill level, and
- wherein the communication resources are radio resources, and
- wherein the user entity informs the resource manager on the fill level via messages which indicate, as a first addressee, the resource manager, wherein the first addressee is different from a second addressee as which the server is indicated by media requests sent from the client to the server in order to retrieve the media content from the server.
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Resource manager configured to
- inspect a media request (60) sent from a client (40) operating at a user entity (34), to a server (42), the media request requesting a wanted version of a media content (44) out of versions of differing bandwidths of the media content which are described in a media presentation description (46) sent from the server to the client;
- and
- decide
- to forward the media request (60) to the server, or, alternatively,
- to cause that the media request (60) does not lead to the wanted version of the media content (44) being sent to the client (40).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.