At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

At&t Mobility II LLC

Niklas Carlsson

Emir Halepovic

Vengatanathan Krishnamoorthi

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Eric Petajan

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, setting a streaming rate cap for a client device; obtaining a bitrate ladder associated with the client device, wherein the bitrate ladder comprises a listing of a plurality of bitrates that the client device can request in connection with receiving streaming data; determining a boost rate for the client device, wherein the boost rate is greater than the streaming rate cap such that the boost rate enables the client device to receive the streaming data faster than the client device would otherwise receive the streaming data under the streaming rate cap, and wherein the boost rate is based upon the bitrate ladder; and enabling delivery to the client device of the streaming data up to the boost rate; wherein a network device is part of a network through which the streaming data is delivered to the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Cap-based client-network interaction for improved streaming experience

A buffer classification system calculates first flow metrics for a first flow in response to receiving first packet level data. The system in response to receiving HTTP information, generates buffer emulation data and creates one or more data training sets using the first flow metrics and buffer emulation data, wherein training data used to create the one or more training data sets is further generated by computing an average throughput per second observed over different time windows during a video playback. The system in response to creating the one or more training data sets, generates one or more classifier rules used to determine a buffer condition of a flow. The system in response to receiving second packet level data, calculates second flow metrics for a second flow and predicts a buffer condition for the second flow based on the second flow metrics and the one or more classifier rules.

System for determining a predicted buffer condition based on flow metrics and classifier rules generated in response to the creation of training data sets

A method () for determining statistics for the Direction of Departure between a UE and a base station. The method () comprises receiving measurement reports from the UE on the strength of signals in the UE from one or more of the cells served by the base station, and for one pair of cells served by the base station, determining () whether or not the UE was limited in measuring the strength of the signals, and, if the UE was limited, determining () said statistics using the signal strengths from the cells in the pair, the cells' antenna gain towards the UE and the maximum difference between the signal strengths from the cells in the pair, and if the UE was not limited, determining () said statistics using the signal strengths from the cells in the pair and differences in the cells' antenna gain towards the UE.

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