Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Jonas Lundberg

Johan Kristiansson

Nicklas Sandgren

Daniel Bergström

Peter Hedman

Peter Ökvist

Hans Hannu

Sara Sandberg

Magnus Thurfjell

Kjell Larsson

Fredrik Klas Jansson

Tommy Falk

Erlendur Karlsson

Anders Nohlgren

Yang Zuo

Andreas Ekeroth

Arne Steinarson

Anders Karlsson

Daniel Espling

Anders Nohigren

Daniel BERGSTRÖM

A method of controlling a set of devices (and) is proposed. The method is performed by a voice-controlled device (). In response to receiving (S) a first voice command of a user comprising a first reference to at least one device of the set of devices and a control command to be performed on the at least one device of the set of devices, the voice-controlled device presents (S) an identifier in association with each of the at least one device of the set of devices. In response to receiving (S) a second voice command from the user comprising a second reference to one or more of the identifiers, the voice-controlled device controls (S) one or more of the at least one device of the set of devices which can be identified based on the second reference comprised in the second voice command to execute the control command comprised in the first voice command.

Controlling a set of devices by a voice-controlled device

It is presented a method performed in a deployment server being configured to deploy a software container. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a trigger to deploy a software container; obtaining an image intended for the software container comprising a set of at least one module; injecting a security module in the image; obtaining a container specification of the image; configuring the security module to forward incoming communication to the set of at least one module in accordance with the obtained container specification; modifying the container specification such that the at least one service is accessed externally only via the security module and that all outgoing communication, from the set of at least one module, is directed via the security module; publishing the modified container specification in a service discovery repository; and deploying the software container on at least one execution server.

Security for a software container

It is presented a method performed by a first software container comprising an implanted agent, which is configured to run in said first software container. The method comprise the steps, performed by the implanted agent, of: resolving an Internet Protocol, IP, address and a port of the first software container; and registering a microservice identity, the IP address and the port of the first software container in a first distributed hash table for enabling a second implanted agent running in a second software container to configure a reverse proxy running in the second software container.

Implanted agent within a first service container for enabling a reverse proxy on a second container

It is provided a method for managing a lifecycle of a software container announced in a distributed peer-to-peer repository, wherein the method is performed in a server. The method comprises the steps of: initialising execution of the software container in the server; setting the software container in a standby state; receiving a start message from a remote device, the start message comprising at least one start parameter for the software container; and starting a main process of the software container and applying the at least one start parameter for the main process, to progress the software container to a running state.

Managing a lifecycle of a software container

In a method in a mixing unit for mixing received data packets from a plurality of data streams, wherein the method includes the steps of receiving (M) decoded data packets and their timing information, which timing information comprises at least a determined maximum waiting time for each decoded data packet, optimizing (M) a waiting time for a subsequent mix of data packets based on the timing information, and mixing at least a subset of the decoded received data packets based on the optimized waiting time.

Low latency media mixing in packet networks

It is provided a method for allocating a software container executing on a server of a set of servers. The method is performed in a container allocator and comprising the steps of: receiving a request to invoke a software container for a client; calculating a lookup key associated with the software container; performing a lookup in a distributed peer-to-peer repository using the lookup key, giving a result set of active software containers; selecting one software container from the set of software containers; and connecting to the selected software container to allocate the selected software container to the client.

Allocating or announcing availability of a software container

A method and a deployment module () for managing a container to be deployed on a software platform () are disclosed. The container provides a first set of functions. The deployment module () obtains () the container. The deployment module () obtains () a list specifying a second set of functions for the container. The deployment module () associates () the container, based on the list, with the second set of functions. The container, when deployed, provides the first and second set of functions when executed on the software platform (). A corresponding computer program and a carrier therefor are also disclosed.

Method and deployment module for managing a container to be deployed on a software platform

It is presented a method for managing a jitter buffer depth for receiving real-time communication. The method is performed in a receiver and comprises the steps of: determining an adaptive bitrate state of the receiver when a current capacity of a communication channel for receiving the real-time communication is below a maximum bitrate for receiving the real-time communication; and increasing a depth of a jitter buffer for receiving the real-time communication when the adaptive bitrate state is determined.

Managing a jitter buffer size

The present invention relates to a method and a user equipment arranged to communicate with at least a second user equipment in a VoIP service data transmission in a wireless communication system using a VoIP service, provided by an application server. The method comprises the steps of: receiving transmissions in form of a media stream from the at least one second user equipment; storing the data of the media stream; detecting whether an interruption of said transmissions having at least a minimum length has occurred during the VoIP service data transmission or expecting that an interruption of said transmissions having at least a minimum length will occur during the VoIP service data transmission, and if such an interruption is detected or expected, using a non-normative playout rate of the data at playout, thereby obtaining a more efficient interactivity in the user communication.

Methods and systems for compensating for delay in voice over IP communications

A speech quality estimation technique that employs an arbitrary, speech quality estimation algorithm. The speech quality estimation technique analyzes a reference speech signal and a test speech signal, and based on this analysis, identifies the level of continuous delay variation, if any, and the location of and size of any intermittent delay variations along the test signal. The reference speech signal and/or the test speech signal are adjusted to account for continuous delay variation and intermittent delay variations, such that the reference speech signal and the test signal are similarly scaled with respect to the time domain. The reference speech signal and the test speech signal are then compared for the purpose of generating a speech quality estimation. The resulting speech quality estimation is then adjusted based on the level of continuous delay variation and any intermittent delay variations.

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Jonas Lundberg