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Network quality as a service

  • US 9,647,952 B2
  • Filed: 10/17/2014
  • Issued: 05/09/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of improving the performance of an access network used for coupling one or more user devices to an application server, said method comprisingconfiguring one or more proxy servers to communicate with the one or more user devices and with the application server;

  • creating one or more encoding channels to carry one or more types of traffic between one of said one or more proxy servers and one of the one or more user devices;

    setting one or more target loss ratios for one or more encoding channels;

    encoding by said user devices data using a network performance enhancing coding (NPEC) before transmission over said one or more encoding channels;

    transmitting the encoded data over said one or more encoding channels;

    decoding by said one of said one or more proxy servers the encoded data using said NPEC;

    monitoring a weighted average performance of said one or more encoding channels;

    comparing said weighted average performance with a weighted average performance of other encoding channels;

    applying different encoding levels based on said comparison; and

    transmitting, by said one of said one or more proxy servers erver the decoded data to said application server.

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