BROADCAST VIDEO PROVISIONING SYSTEM

• US 20130104173A1
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: AGUIRRE, Sergio, CHIANG, David, BAO, Derek Hongwei H., ALWARD, David M., KOTECHA, Lalit R., BASRA, Arvind, TJIO, Lee, MADHAV, Vijay T., ROGERS, Brett I.
• Granted Patent: US 8,910,217 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26616 for merging a unicast channel into a multicast channel, e.g. in a VOD application, when a client served by unicast channel catches up a multicast channel to save bandwidth data multicast over packet-switching network H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A device receives, from a network device, information associated with an event, and assigns an event identifier to the event based on the event information. The device also provides the event identifier to a cell control device located at a location associated with the event, and determines a cell capacity of the location to ensure that there is sufficient cell capacity at the location to broadcast the event. The network device instructs a device capturing the event to provide live event data to the cell control device for a predetermined time period.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a device and from a network device, information associated with an event;

assigning, by the device, an event identifier to the event based on the event information;

providing, by the device, the event identifier to a cell control device located at a location associated with the event; and

determining, by the device, a cell capacity of the location to ensure that there is sufficient cell capacity at the location to broadcast the event,

where the network device instructs a device capturing the event to provide live event data to the cell control device for a predetermined time period.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the event identifier and the event information in a database associated with the device.

3. The method of claim 1, where the event information includes one or more of:

a title of the event,

a duration of the event,

the location of the event,

a start time of the event, and

a stop time of the event.

4. The method of claim 3, where the predetermined time period includes the duration of the event.

5. The method of claim 1, where the event includes one of:

a live national event, or

a live regional event.

6. The method of claim 4, where the event includes one of:

a live sporting event,

a live concert, or

a live speech.

7. The method of claim 1, where the network device instructs the device capturing the event to provide live event data to the cell control device when a user equipment, requesting the live event data, is located at the location.

8. A device, comprising:

a processor to;

receive, from a network device, information associated with an event,

assign an event identifier to the event based on the event information,

provide the event identifier to a cell control device located at a location associated with the event, and

determine a cell capacity of the location to ensure that there is sufficient cell capacity at the location to broadcast the event,

where the network device instructs a device capturing the event to provide live event data to the cell control device for a predetermined time period.

9. The device of claim 8, where the processor is further to:

store the event identifier and the event information in a database associated with the device.

10. The device of claim 8, where the event information includes one or more of:

a title of the event,

a duration of the event,

the location of the event,

a start time of the event, and

a stop time of the event.

11. The device of claim 8, where the predetermined time period includes a duration of the event.

12. The device of claim 8, where the event includes one of:

a live event,

a recorded event, or

a data delivery.

13. The device of claim 8, where the network device instructs the device capturing the event to provide live event data to the cell control device when a user equipment, requesting the live event data, is located at the location.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a device, an event identifier for an event occurring at a location;

reserving, by the device, bandwidth at the location for the event and before the event begins;

receiving, by the device and based on the event identifier, live data associated with the event;

broadcasting, by the device, the live data to a user equipment that requests the live data, when the user equipment is located at the location; and

terminating, by the device, the broadcast of the live data after a predetermined time period.

15. The method of claim 14, where the predetermined time period includes a duration of the event.

17. The method of claim 14, where the event includes one of:

a live national event, or

a live regional event.

18. The method of claim 14, where a network device instructs a device capturing the event to provide the live data to the device when the user equipment, requesting the live data, is located at the location.

19. A device, comprising:

a processor to;

receive an event identifier for an event occurring at a location,

reserve, before the event begins, bandwidth at the location for the event,

receive, based on the event identifier, live data associated with the event,

broadcast the live data to a user equipment that requests the live data, when the user equipment is located at the location, and

terminate the broadcast of the live data after a predetermined time period.

20. The device of claim 19, where the predetermined time period includes a duration of the event.

21. The device of claim 19, where the event includes one of:

a live national event, or

a live regional event.

22. The device of claim 19, where a device capturing the event is instructed to provide the live data to the device when the user equipment, requesting the live data, is located at the location.