Method, Device and System for Processing Streaming Media Service Data

• US 20140254489A1
• Filed: 05/22/2014
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Han, Guanglin, Zhang, Jian, Song, Weiwei
• Granted Patent: US 9,294,521 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/04 Scheduled access hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, device, and system for processing streaming media service data. When a user equipment detects a service terminate operation or a service switching operation performed by a user, the user equipment sends a scheduling terminate message to a scheduling device, so that the scheduling device can timely learn that the user equipment has stopped a streaming media service being performed, and immediately stop scheduling, according to the scheduling terminate message, streaming media service data requested by the user equipment to the user equipment.

Claims

1. A method for processing streaming media service data, the method comprising:

detecting, by a user equipment, a service terminate operation or a service switching operation performed by a user; and

sending, by the user equipment, a scheduling terminate message to a scheduling device so that the scheduling device stops scheduling streaming media service data requested by the user equipment to the user equipment according to the scheduling terminate message.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, when the user equipment detects the service terminate operation performed by the user and before or after sending the scheduling terminate message to the scheduling device, sending, by the user equipment, service terminate signaling to a server, so that the server stops delivering the streaming media service data requested by the user equipment to the scheduling device according to the service terminate signaling.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, when the user equipment detects the service switching operation performed by the user and before and after sending the scheduling terminate message to the scheduling device, sending, by the user equipment, service switching signaling to a server, so that the server stops delivering the streaming media service data requested by the user equipment before switching, to the scheduling device according to the service switching signaling, and delivering streaming media service data which is requested by the user equipment after switching.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the scheduling device is an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) and the scheduling terminate message is an access stratum (AS) message.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the scheduling device is a mobility management entity (MME) and the scheduling terminate message is a non-access stratum (NAS) message.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the scheduling terminate message comprises a streaming media identifier and wherein the stopping scheduling comprises stopping scheduling, by the scheduling device according to the scheduling terminate message, the streaming media service data corresponding to the streaming media identifier, to the user equipment.

7. A method for processing streaming media service data, the method comprising:

receiving, by a scheduling device, a scheduling terminate message from a user equipment; and

stopping scheduling, by the scheduling device and according to the scheduling terminate message, streaming media service data to the user equipment, the streaming media service data being from a server and is requested by the user equipment.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising releasing, by the scheduling device and according to the scheduling terminate message, resources occupied by the streaming media service data.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the releasing resources occupied by the streaming media service data comprises:

discarding unprocessed service data which is in the streaming media service data and is cached in a packet data convergence protocol layer;

discarding service data which is in the streaming media service data and is processed to be a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit;

instructing a radio link control layer to release service data which is in the streaming media service data and is delivered to the radio link control layer;

instructing a media access control layer to release service data which is in the streaming media service data and is processed to be hybrid automatic repeat request data, wherein the hybrid automatic repeat request data does not comprise data obtained by processing other streaming media service data than the streaming media service data; and

discarding the streaming media service data received from the server.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the scheduling device is an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) and the scheduling terminate message is an access stratum (AS) message.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the scheduling device is a mobility management entity (MME) and the scheduling terminate message is a non-access stratum (NAS) message.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein the scheduling terminate message comprises a streaming media identifier and wherein stopping scheduling comprises stopping sending the streaming media service data which is from the server and is corresponding to the streaming media identifier.

13. A user equipment, comprising:

a first sending module, configured to, when a user equipment detects a service terminate operation or a service switching operation performed by a user, send a scheduling terminate message to a scheduling device, so that the scheduling device stops scheduling streaming media service data requested by the user equipment to the user equipment according to the scheduling terminate message.

14. The user equipment according to claim 13, further comprising:

a second sending module, configured to, when the user equipment detects the service terminate operation performed by the user and before or after the first sending module sends the scheduling terminate message to the scheduling device, send service terminate signaling to a server, so that the server stops delivering the streaming media service data requested by the user equipment to the scheduling device according to the service terminate signaling.

15. The user equipment according to claim 13, further comprises a second sending module configured to, when the user equipment detects the service switching operation performed by the user and before or after the first sending module sends the scheduling terminate message to the scheduling device, send service switching signaling to a server, so that the server stops delivering the streaming media service data, requested by the user equipment before switching, to the scheduling device according to the service switching signaling, and delivers streaming media service data which is requested by the user equipment after switching.

16. The user equipment according to claim 13, wherein the scheduling terminate message comprises a streaming media identifier and wherein the first sending module is further configured to enable the scheduling device to stop scheduling the streaming media service data corresponding to the streaming media identifier, to the user equipment according to the scheduling terminate message.

17. A scheduling device, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a scheduling terminate message from a user equipment; and

an executing module, configured to stop scheduling streaming media service data which is from a server and is requested by the user equipment to the user equipment according to the scheduling terminate message received by the receiving module.

18. The scheduling device according to claim 17, further comprising a resource release module, configured to, after the executing module stops scheduling the streaming media service data, which is requested by the user equipment and is from the server, to the user equipment, release, resources occupied by the streaming media service data according to the scheduling terminate message received by the receiving module.

19. The scheduling device according to claim 18, wherein the resource release module comprises:

a first discarding unit, configured to discard unprocessed service data which is in the streaming media service data and is cached in a packet data convergence protocol layer;

a second discarding unit, configured to discard service data which is in the streaming media service data and is processed to be a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit;

a first releasing unit, configured to instruct a radio link control layer to release service data which is in the streaming media service data and is delivered to the radio link control layer;

a second releasing unit, configured to instruct a media access control layer to release service data which is in the streaming media service data and is processed to be hybrid automatic repeat request data, wherein the hybrid automatic repeat request data does not comprise data obtained by processing other streaming media service data than the streaming media service data; and

a third discarding unit, configured to discard the streaming media service data received from the server.

20. The scheduling device according to claim 17, wherein the scheduling terminate message comprises a streaming media identifier and wherein the executing module is further configured to stop scheduling the streaming media service data which is corresponding to the streaming media identifier and is from the server, to the user equipment according to the scheduling terminate message.