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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2013
Nec Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;
Jan Seedorf, Heidelberg, DE;
Mayutan Arumaithurai, Goettingen, DE;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method delivers content in content delivery networks that include an upstream content delivery network and a downstream content delivery network comprising at least two content delivery entities. The upstream and downstream content delivery networks are connected to each other. A user equipment is connected to the downstream content delivery network. The method includes requesting a content stream by the user equipment, providing the content stream by the upstream content delivery network, redirecting the content stream to a content delivery entity, and providing the content stream to the user equipment. Network information of the downstream content delivery network and/or user equipment information are determined. Probabilities for the content delivery entities are determined for optimized content stream performance. The user equipment is connected to the content delivery entity having the highest probability. The content stream is redirected to the content delivery entity and delivered to the user equipment.