Video content delivery over wireless access networks with quality of service (QOS) guarantees

• US 9,392,306 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2010
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Kotecha, Lalit Ratilal, Aguirre, Sergio, Kamel, Raafat, Kamdar, Kamlesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Lonsberry, Hunter B
• Application Number:
  US12/849,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20120036541A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,169 Days
• Field of Search: 725/62, 725 93- 95
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2385 Channel allocation H04N21/266 takes precedence; Bandwidth allocation H04N21/24 takes precedence ; allocation of channels according to the instantaneous demands of the users in time-division multiplex systems H04J3/1682; admission control, resource allocation in open networks H04L12/5692; arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896; negotiating bandwidth in wireless networks H04W28/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2402 Monitoring of the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. bandwidth available traffic monitoring in data switching networks H04L43/00; monitoring data switching networks utilization H04L43/0876
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/647 Control signaling between network components and server or clients; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients, e.g. controlling the quality of the video stream, by dropping packets, protecting content from unauthorised alteration within the network, monitoring of network load, bridging between two different networks, e.g. between IP and wireless real-time session protocols H04L65/1101

Abstract

A device receives, from a content provider, traffic parameters associated with a video content request received from a fixed user device connected to a wireless access network, and determines, based on the traffic parameters, a trigger for creating a dedicated bearer for the fixed user device in the wireless access network. The device also provides the trigger to the wireless access network, where the wireless access network creates the dedicated bearer for the fixed user device based on the trigger, and the wireless access network assigns quality of service (QoS) parameters, based on the traffic parameters, to video content delivered to the fixed user device.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, subscriber profile information for a fixed user device when the fixed user device connects to a wireless access network;

receiving, by the computing device, a video content request from the fixed user device connected to the wireless access network;

providing, by the computing device, the video content request to a content provider;

receiving, by the computing device, video content from the content provider based on the video content request;

creating, by the computing device, a dedicated bearer, for the fixed user device in the wireless access network, when the video content matches the subscriber profile information; and

assigning, by the computing device and when the dedicated bearer is created, quality of service (QoS) parameters to the video content based on the traffic parameters, wherein creating a dedicated bearer comprises;

determining whether a packet of the video content matches the subscriber profile information,

triggering creation of the dedicated bearer for the fixed user device when a packet of the video content matches the specific profile information, and

providing, in a queue, packets of the video content arriving at the computing device until the dedicated bearer is created for the fixed user device, and

preventing creation of the dedicated bearer for the fixed user device when a packet of the video content fails to match the subscriber profile information.

2. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computing device and from a content provider, profile information associated with video content subscribers of the content provider; and

providing, by the computing device and to a wireless access network, particular subscriber profile information, from the received profile information, when a particular subscriber associated with a fixed user device connects to the wireless access network,

creating, by the computing device, when a match occurs between the profile information, associate with the video content subscribers and the particular subscriber profile information, a dedicated bearer, and

preventing, by the computing device, when the profile information associated with the video content subscriber fails to match the particular subscriber profile information, the creation of the dedicated bearer, and

where the wireless access network assigns quality of service (QoS) parameters, based on the particular subscriber profile information, to video content delivered to the fixed user device connected to the wireless access network.

3. The method of claim 2, where the wireless access network includes a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.

4. A device comprising:

a memory to store a plurality of instructions; and

a processor to execute instructions in the memory to;

receive subscriber profile information for a fixed user device when the fixed user device connects to a wireless access network,

receive a video content request from the fixed user device,

provide the video content request to a content provider,

receive video content from the content provider based on the video content request,

create, as the video content is received from the content provider, a dedicated bearer, for the fixed user device in the wireless access network, when the video content matches the subscriber profile information,

assign, when the dedicated bearer is created, quality of service (QoS) parameters to the video content based on the traffic parameters,

provide, to the fixed user device, the video content with the QoS parameters, and

prevent creation of the dedicated bearer for the fixed user device when a packet of the video content fails to match the subscriber profile information.