At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Sbc Knowledge Ventures, L.p.

Chanyu Holdings, LLC

Steve Sposato

Raghvendra Savoor

Canhui Ou

Zhi Li

Ganesh Krishnamurthi

Raj Savoor

Michael Liu

Steven Gemelos

Steve Gemelos

The invention provides a system, method and apparatus for controlling a mass calling event in a VoIP network. The invention provides for monitoring port traffic information on a network edge device and detecting the occurrence of a mass calling event in conjunction with a call control module. Control instructions or information may then be provisioned to network edge devices to alleviate congestion. The invention enables network edge devices to gap or provide other controls to reduce call overloading. Controls for alleviating congestion include blocking the packets, providing an announcement to the call, re-routing the traffic associated with this specific mass calling event, and reducing the quality of the service.

Overload call control in a VoIP network

A method including receiving data packets encapsulating at least part of a media stream, extracting a decoder-ready packet from the data packets, processing the decoder-ready packet; and substantially synchronously with the processing of the decoder-ready packet, generating delivery performance information for the at least part of the media stream, data from which is included in the decoder-ready packet.

In-band media performance monitoring

A broadband residential gateway (BRG) management system has a communications interface coupled to one or more BRGs and one or more content service providers (CSPs), a memory, and a processor. The processor can be programmed to establish a content profile for each of the BRGs according to one or more attributes of the BRGs and the CSPs, receive a content access request from one or more BRGs, and supply each BRG access to selectable content from one or more of the CSPs according to the content profile.

Method and apparatus for managing broadband residential gateways

A broadband residential gateway (BRG) management system () has a communications interface () coupled to one or more BRGsand one or more content service providers (CSPs)(), a memory (), and a processor (). The processor can be programmed to establish () a content profile for each of the BRGs according to one or more attributes of the BRGs and the CSPs, receive () a content access request from one or more BRGs, and supply () each BRG access to selectable content from one or more of the CSPs according to the content profile.

A broadband residential gateway (BRG) management system () has a communications interface () coupled to one or more BRGsand one or more content service providers (CSPs) (), a memory (), and a processor (). The processor can be programmed to establish () a content profile for each of the BRGs according to one or more attributes of the BRGs and the CSPs, receive () a content access request from one or more BRGs, and supply () each BRG access to selectable content from one or more of the CSPs according to the content profile.

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