Optimal provisioning and management of bandwidth in a video-on-demand services architecture
First Claim
1. A Video-On-Demand system including a server for generating VOD services for subscribers and a delivery network coupled to the server for delivering the VOD services to the subscribers, wherein a bandwidth of the server for providing Video-On-Demand services to the subscribers is less than a bandwidth of the delivery network for providing the Video-On-Demand services to the subscribers, and wherein the system flexibly selects a path in the delivery network by which a requested VOD service is provided.
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Abstract
A method for provisioning a Video-On-Demand server with enough bandwidth to stream videos to subscribers such that the probability of the Video-On-Demand server not having enough bandwidth to stream video to a subscriber is less than a set value.
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44 Claims
- 1. A Video-On-Demand system including a server for generating VOD services for subscribers and a delivery network coupled to the server for delivering the VOD services to the subscribers, wherein a bandwidth of the server for providing Video-On-Demand services to the subscribers is less than a bandwidth of the delivery network for providing the Video-On-Demand services to the subscribers, and wherein the system flexibly selects a path in the delivery network by which a requested VOD service is provided.
- 21. A Video-On-Demand system including a server for generating VOD services for subscribers and a delivery network coupled to the server for delivering the VOD services to the subscribers, wherein a bandwidth of the server for providing Video-On-Demand services to the subscribers is less than a bandwidth of the delivery network for providing the Video-On-Demand services to the subscribers, and wherein the server is provisioned with enough bandwidth such that the probability that the server will not have enough bandwidth to deliver the services to the subscribers is less than a set value.
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41. A method for monitoring utilization in a delivery network between a server providing Video-On-Demand services and subscribers, comprising:
- monitoring the utilization of elements of the delivery network; and
assigning paths in the delivery network to deliver the Video-On-Demand services in response to the monitoring. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44)
- monitoring the utilization of elements of the delivery network; and
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