Ensuring quality of a video stream through a telecommunications network
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsShingara Singh Dhanoa, Bejoy Pankajakshan, Randolph Keith Hiser
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Abstract
A method and medium are provided for ensuring that a video stream communicated from a mobile device is communicated subject to a minimum quality level. A request to communicate a video stream at a minimum quality level from a mobile device is received. Signaling information from the mobile device is processed and utilized to establish a communications pathway from the mobile device to the target device. The communications pathway facilitates the communication of the video stream at the minimum quality level. The video stream is communicated to the target device contemporaneously to receiving the video clip by the mobile device.
Claims20
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of ensuring that a video stream communicated from a mobile device is communicated subject to a minimum quality level, the method comprising:
- receiving a request from a mobile device to communicate a video stream to a target device, the request being received through a wireless telecommunications network, the video stream to be communicated at the minimum quality level, wherein the video stream is being contemporaneously received by and communicated from the mobile device;
- determining a quality level to be associated with a communication of the video stream by processing signaling information communicated from the mobile device to a policy server that is able to map the mobile device to a designated quality level;
- associating the designated quality level with the video stream such that the video stream will be communicated consistent with the designated quality level;
- utilizing the signaling information to establish a communications pathway between the mobile device and the target device;
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- enabling communication of the video stream through the communications pathway consistent with the designated quality level.
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of ensuring that a video stream communicated from a mobile device is communicated subject to a minimum quality level, the method comprising:
- accepting from the mobile device a request sent through a wireless telecommunications network;
- processing signaling information associated with the request to identify a minimum quality level threshold;
- determining that the minimum quality level threshold is available to communicate the video stream from the mobile device, wherein the video stream is being contemporaneously received by and communicated from the mobile device;
- establishing a communication session utilizing the signaling information, wherein the communication session is utilized to communicate the video stream from the mobile device;
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- facilitating receiving the video stream consistent with the quality level threshold from the mobile device by way of the session.
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of ensuring that a video stream communicated from a mobile device is communicated subject to a minimum quality level, the method comprising:
- receiving a request by way of signal information to communicate the video stream at the minimum quality level to a target device;
- communicating the request to the target device;
- determining resources necessary to communicate the video stream from the mobile device at the minimum quality level;
- reserving the determined resources on a wireless telecommunications network to facilitate communication of the video stream from the mobile device at the minimum quality level;
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- communicating to the mobile device by way of signaling information that the determined resources are reserved to communicate the video stream from the mobile device at the minimum quality level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.