Cisco Technology, Inc.

Gabriel Bouvigne

Mathieu Pichon

Alexis Gallet De Saint-Aurin

Pascal Thubert

Patrick Wetterwald

Thomas Davies

Laurent Gardes

Alex Ruelle

Damien Alliez

Jie Wang

Mathieu Gorbinet

Pierre-Stéphane Diaz

Benoit Baudaux

Philippe Martin-Duday

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor operative to determine a plurality of bitrate options for downloading video content to a client device and rendering by the client device over future successive timeslots, the video content being encoded as a plurality of bitrate streams, each one bitrate stream being encoded at a different bitrate and being associated with a media distortion value, each one bitrate option including a different selection from the bitrate streams for rendering by the client device over the timeslots so that the bitrate options include different combinations of the bitrate streams for rendering by the client device over the timeslots, and select one bitrate option, from the bitrate options yielding a selected bitrate option, to provide a lowest media distortion result across the timeslots, or a lowest media distortion result across the timeslots subject to at least one other constraint.

Bitrate stream selection for downloading video content to a client device

Embodiments provide techniques for selecting a video stream for a client device. Embodiments receive a request to initiate streaming of a first video content item of a plurality of video channels. An amount of data remaining in a data plan associated with a client device is determined, as is an amount of time remaining in a current data plan cycle for the data plan associated with the client device. Embodiments calculate, for each of a plurality of available video profiles for the first video content item, an estimated amount of data usage for streaming the first video content item according to the available video profile, based on historical streaming data for the client device. An available video profile is selected for the first video content item, and embodiments facilitate streaming of the first video content item on the client device, according to the selected available video profile.

Data cap aware video streaming client

A method comprises: obtaining, at an apparatus, first voice data from a first user device associated with a first speaker participant in a communication session; detecting voice data loss or degradation in the first voice data; determining whether prediction probability of correctly compensating for the voice data loss or degradation is greater than a predetermined probability threshold; if the prediction probability is greater than the predetermined probability threshold, first compensating for the voice data loss or degradation using historical voice data received by the apparatus prior to receiving of the first voice data, the first compensating producing first compensated voice data; if the prediction probability is not greater than the predetermined probability threshold, second compensating for the voice data loss or degradation by inserting noise to the first voice data to produce second compensated voice data; and outputting the first compensated voice data or the second compensated voice data.

Voice data compensation with machine learning

Techniques are provided for optimizing an assignment of a set of available video encoders to a plurality of video channels. Embodiments determine an optimal assignment of the set of available video encoders to the plurality of video channels, comprising, for each of the plurality of video channels, by determining a respective number of video encoders to assign to the video channel, and determining a respective set of video streams to provide for the video channel, using the assigned video encoders. The video streams are generated for the plurality of video channels, using the assigned video encoders.

Video streaming resource optimization

Embodiments provide techniques for optimizing ABR profiles for broadcast channels at a network gateway device. Embodiments include monitoring, at a network gateway device for a network, a plurality of client devices within the network to determine adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming information for a first broadcast channel of a plurality of broadcast channels. One or more performance attributes of the network are determined. Embodiments include selecting one or more ABR profiles, of a plurality of ABR profiles for the first broadcast channel, based on the ABR streaming information and the one or more performance attributes of the network. An updated manifest file specifying the selected one or more ABR profiles for the first broadcast channel is generated, and the updated manifest file is transmitted to the plurality of client devices.

ABR network profile selection engine

A system including a processor to create a history database in a storage medium for storing signal strength history records, each history record including an indication of one or more signals and a signal strength for each of the one or more signals detected by a mobile device, each of the history records being mapped to a rendering device, receive a first signal strength record, compare the first signal strength record to at least some of the history records to find one of the at least some history records which is a sufficiently close match to the first signal strength record, wherein the sufficiently close matching history record is mapped to a first rendering device, select the first rendering device for the user interface software to send control commands to, and store the first signal strength record in the history database mapped to the selected rendering device.

Device selection for user interface

In one embodiment, a method implemented on a computing device includes: receiving one or more video mosaic source services, each of the one or more video mosaic source services comprising a plurality of cells, each cell being associated with a content source; receiving signaling data, the signaling data comprising at least one attribute defining a current content available on a content source; receiving a request specifying an attribute to use for producing a mosaic presentation screen; and upon receiving the request, compositing cells extracted from the received one or more video mosaic source services into a mosaic presentation screen, the composited cells being associated with content sources whose current content attribute corresponds to the specified attribute.

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Gabriel Bouvigne