Transmission of content-related data of an OTT provider to a telecommunications device using a telecommunications network

• US 9,215,606 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2014
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Blicker, Stephan
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Brenda H
• Application Number:
  US14/283,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20140347991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 573 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310.2, 370/328, 370/338, 370/349
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A method is provided for transfer of content-related data of an Over-the-top (OTT) provider to a telecommunications device using a telecommunications network. The method includes: receiving, by the OTT provider, a request for content-related data; transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider to a content delivery interface device of the telecommunications network; and transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider to a content delivery functionality of the telecommunications network and transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider from the content delivery functionality of the telecommunications network to the telecommunications device at a predetermined time or in a predetermined time interval. The telecommunications network includes a radio interface and a further radio interface for transmission of the content-related data of the OTT.

Claims

1. A method for transfer of content-related data of an Over-the-top (OTT) provider to a telecommunications device using a telecommunications network, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a content control functionality device of the telecommunications network, information regarding a predetermined time or a predetermined time interval to a content delivery interface device of the telecommunications network;

receiving, by the OTT provider, a request for content-related data;

transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider to the content delivery interface device of the telecommunications network; and

transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider to a content delivery functionality device of the telecommunications network and transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider from the content delivery functionality device of the telecommunications network to the telecommunications device at the predetermined time or in the predetermined time interval;

wherein the telecommunications network includes a central network, a radio interface and a further radio interface for transmission of the content-related data of the OTT;

wherein the radio interface of the telecommunications network is a base station;

wherein the telecommunications network further includes a network monitoring system, wherein a first component of the network monitoring system is provided at the central network and a second component of the network monitoring system is provided at the base station;

wherein the predetermined time or the predetermined time interval is based on information relating to current capacity utilization transmitted from the first component of the network monitoring system and from the second component of the network monitoring system to the content control functionality device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content-related data of the OTT is non-real-time type data, and wherein the telecommunications device is configured to receive the content-related data at the predetermined time or in the predetermined time interval.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the request transmitted to the OTT provider is transmitted by the telecommunications device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content-related data of the OTT is transmitted by the content delivery interface device to the content delivery functionality device, and wherein the content-related data of the OTT is transmitted by the content delivery functionality device to the telecommunications device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content-related data of the OTT is temporarily stored by the content delivery functionality device after being received by the content delivery interface device.

6. A system for transmission of content-related data of an Over-the-top (OTT) provider to a telecommunications device using a telecommunications network, the system comprising:

the telecommunications terminal device;

the OTT provider; and

the telecommunications network;

wherein the telecommunications network comprises a central network;

wherein the telecommunications network comprises a radio interface, wherein the radio interface of the telecommunications network is a base station;

wherein the telecommunications device comprises a further radio interface;

wherein the telecommunications network and telecommunications device are configured to transmit the content-related data via the radio interface and the further radio interface;

wherein the telecommunications network comprises a content delivery interface device for connection of the OTT provider;

wherein the telecommunications network comprises a content delivery functionality device for transmission of the content-related data via the radio interface and the further radio interface to the telecommunications device;

wherein the telecommunications network further has a content control functionality device;

wherein the OTT provider is configured to receive a request for the content-related data;

wherein the OTT provider and the telecommunications network are configured such that the content-related data is transmitted according to the request to the content delivery interface device;

wherein the telecommunications network is configured so that the content-related data transmitted to the content delivery interface device is transmitted to the content delivery functionality device and from the content delivery functionality device to the telecommunications device at a predetermined time or in a predetermined time interval;

wherein the content control functionality device is configured to send information regarding the predetermined time or the predetermined time interval to the content delivery interface device;

wherein the telecommunications network further includes a network monitoring system, wherein a first component of the network monitoring system is provided at the central network and a second component of the network monitoring system is provided at the base station;

wherein the first component of the network monitoring system and the second component of the network monitoring system are configured to send information relating to current capacity utilization to the content control functionality device.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the telecommunications device is configured to be automatically activated to receive the content-related data at the predetermined time or in the predetermined time interval.

8. One or more non-transitory processor-readable media having processor-executable instructions stored thereon for transfer of content-related data of an Over-the-top (OTT) provider to a telecommunications device using a telecommunications network, the processor-executable instructions, when executed by a processor, facilitating the performance of the following steps:

transmitting information relating to current capacity utilization from a first component of a network monitoring system and from a second component of a network monitoring system to a content control functionality device;

transmitting, by the content control functionality device of the telecommunications network, information regarding a predetermined time or a predetermined time interval based on the information relating to current capacity utilization to a content delivery interface device of the telecommunications network;

receiving, by the OTT provider, a request for content-related data at the OTT provider;

transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider to the content delivery interface device of the telecommunications network; and

transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider to the content delivery functionality device of the telecommunications network and transmitting the content-related data of the OTT provider from the content delivery functionality device of the telecommunications network to the telecommunications device at the predetermined time or in the predetermined time interval;

wherein the telecommunications network includes a central network, a radio interface and a further radio interface for transmission of the content-related data of the OTT;

wherein the radio interface of the telecommunications network is a base station;

wherein the telecommunications network further includes the network monitor system, wherein the first component of the network monitoring system is provided at the central network and the second component of the network monitoring system is provided at the base station.