CONTROLLING TRAFFIC TRANSMISSIONS TO MANAGE CELLULAR RADIO RESOURCE UTILIZATION

• US 20170238322A1
• Filed: 05/02/2017
• Published: 08/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sen, Subhabrata, Spatscheck, Oliver, Gerber, Alexandre, Mao, Zhuoqing Morley, Qian, Feng, Wang, Zhaoguang
• Granted Patent: US 10,064,195 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• 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 72/53 based on regulatory allocation policies

Abstract

Techniques control traffic transmissions to manage radio resource utilization. When content is being streamed to user equipment (UE) and is at least initially intended to be streamed in real time at a constant bitrate, a communication management component can determine whether the content being transmitted to the UE can be delayed, instead of being transmitted in real time. In response to determining that the content can be delayed, the communication management component can facilitate buffering data and periodically streaming the data to the UE in data bursts to reduce use of UE power and radio resources. When transmitting a visual image to a UE, the communication management component can adjust resolution of a visual image to correspond to screen dimensions of the UE based on information indicating screen dimensions of the UE that can be received from the UE.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

based on a jitter parameter associated with a second portion of content, determining whether a data transfer time for a second communication of the second portion of the content is able to be modified to delay the second communication via a second data burst for a defined amount of time after a first communication of a first portion of the content via a first data burst, wherein the jitter parameter indicates an amount of time delay from the data transfer time that is permitted; and

determining whether the content is permitted to be received by a device using separate data bursts comprising the first data burst comprising the first portion of the content and the second data burst comprising the second portion of the content,

wherein the determining whether the data transfer time is able to be modified facilitates the determining whether the content is permitted to be received by the device using the separate data bursts.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the content being determined to be permitted to be received by the device using the separate data bursts, receiving respective portions of the content in respective data bursts of the separate data bursts, wherein the respective portions of the content comprise the first portion of the content and the second portion of the content, and wherein the respective data bursts comprise the first data burst and the second data burst.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the content is initially scheduled to be received by the device via a continuous stream at a defined bitrate, and wherein the determining whether the content is permitted to be received by the device using the separate data bursts comprises determining whether the content is permitted to be received by the device using the separate data bursts as an alternative to the content being received by the device via the continuous stream at the defined bitrate.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

analyzing the jitter parameter, the data transfer time for the second communication of the second portion of the content, and a time period associated with the first communication of the first portion of the content with the first data burst, and

wherein the determining whether the data transfer time for the second communication of the second portion of the content is able to be modified comprises, based on a result of the analyzing of the jitter parameter, the data transfer time, and the time period, determining whether the data transfer time for the second communication of the second portion of the content is able to be modified to delay the second communication of the second portion of the content via the second data burst for the defined amount of time after the first communication of the first portion of the content via the first data burst.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining whether the data transfer time for the second communication of the second portion of the content is able to be modified comprises, based on the jitter parameter and a defined traffic communication criterion relating to a subscription associated with the content, determining whether the data transfer time for the second communication of the second portion of the content is able to be modified to delay the second communication of the second portion of the content via the second data burst for the defined amount of time after the first communication of the first portion of the content via the first data burst.

6. The system of claim 1, where the device is a first device, and wherein the operations further comprise scheduling a transmission of respective data transfers of respective portions of the content with a second device that is to transmit the respective portions of the content to the first device, and wherein the respective portions of the content comprise the first portion of the content and the second portion of the content.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the scheduling of the transmission of the respective data transfers comprises scheduling a first transmission of a first data transfer of the respective data transfers from the second device to occur within a specified amount of time of a second transmission of a second data transfer associated with different content from a third device to facilitate receiving the first data transfer and the second data transfer in a same data burst of the separate data bursts.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting information indicative of a display characteristic associated with the device;

receiving a modified visual image that has been modified based on the display characteristic associated with the device, wherein the modified visual image is received as part of a portion of the respective portions of the content; and

providing the modified visual image to a display screen of the device that is associated with the display characteristic to facilitate presentation of the modified visual image via the display screen.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the display characteristic comprises information indicative of a display screen dimension associated with the device, and wherein a resolution of the visual image has been modified, based on the information indicative of the display characteristic, to generate the modified visual image.

10. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system comprising a processor, whether receiving content by a device via individual data bursts is acceptable, wherein the individual data bursts comprise a first data burst comprising a first portion of the content and a second data burst comprising a second portion of the content; and

to facilitate the determining whether the receiving of the content by the device via the individual data bursts is acceptable, and based on a jitter parameter associated with the second portion of the content, determining, by the system, whether a data transfer start time for a second communication of the second portion of the content to the device is able to be adjusted to delay the second communication of the second portion of the content with the second data burst for a defined amount of time after a first communication of the first portion of the content, as part of the first data burst, to the device, wherein the jitter parameter indicates an amount of time deviation from the data transfer start time that is acceptable.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

in response to determining that the receiving of the content by the device via the individual data bursts is acceptable, receiving, by the system, individual portions of the content, comprising the first portion of the content and the second portion of the content, via the individual data bursts.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the content is initially scheduled to be streamed to the device via a continuous stream at a specified bitrate, and wherein the determining whether the receiving of the content by the device via the individual data bursts is acceptable comprises determining whether the receiving of the content by the device via the individual data bursts is acceptable as an alternative to the content being received by the device via the continuous stream at the specified bitrate.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining whether the data transfer start time for the second communication of the second portion of the content to the device is able to be adjusted comprises, based on the jitter parameter and a defined traffic communication criterion relating to presentation of the content without disruption, determining whether the data transfer start time for the second communication of the second portion of the content to the device is able to be adjusted to delay the second communication of the second portion of the content with the second data burst for the defined amount of time after the first communication of the first portion of the content, as part of the first data burst, to the device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the device is a first device, and wherein the method further comprises:

scheduling, by the system, a first data transfer, comprising the first portion of the content, to be received from a second device within a specified amount of time of a second data transfer, comprising different content, to be received from a third device to facilitate communicating the first data transfer and the second data transfer in a same data burst of the individual data bursts, wherein the same data burst is the first data burst; and

receiving, by the system, the first data transfer and the second data transfer in the same data burst.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second data transfer is a periodic data transfer.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the second data transfer is an aperiodic data transfer.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting, by the system, information indicative of a display characteristic associated with the device to facilitate modifying a visual image of the content to a modified visual image to correspond to the display characteristic; and

receiving, by the system, the modified visual image based on the display characteristic associated with the device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the information indicative of the display characteristic comprises at least one item of data from a group of items of data comprising first data relating to a length of a display screen of the device, second data relating to a width of the display screen, third data relating to a number of pixels of the display screen, fourth data relating to a manufacturer and a model of the device, fifth data relating to an identifier associated with the device, sixth data relating to a username associated with a user identity associated with the device, and seventh data relating to an account number associated with the device.

19. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

based on a data transfer parameter associated with a second subset of content, determining whether a data transfer time for a second transmission of the second subset of the content to the device is adjustable to delay the second transmission of the second subset of the content with a second data burst to the device for a defined amount of time after a first transmission of a first subset of the content with a first data burst to the device, wherein the data transfer parameter indicates an amount of time deviation from the data transfer time that is permissible; and

based on a result of the determining whether the data transfer time for the second transmission of the second subset of the content to the device is adjustable, determining whether the content is transmittable to a device via separate data bursts comprising the first data burst, comprising the first subset of the content, and the second data burst, comprising the second subset of the content.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to determining that the content is transmittable to the device via the separate data bursts, transmitting respective subsets of the content to the device using the separate data bursts, and wherein the respective subsets of the content comprise the first subset of the content and the second subset of the content.