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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2014
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sangeeta Ramakrishnan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Xiaoqing Zhu, Austin, TX (US);
John T Chapman, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Previously known network management methods are incapable of concertedly managing respective levels of perceptual playback quality of media content data for a number client devices. In particular, previously known methods fail to regulate ABR-enabled client devices and the like that are each operating to individually consume as much of one or more shared network resources as possible without regard to the degree performance improvements. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein provide network-centric concerted management of respective levels of perceptual playback quality of media content data on each of a number of client devices. The respective levels perceptual playback quality are concertedly managed by adjusting one or more shared network resources (e.g., bandwidth, processor time, memory, etc.). Adjustments are made in response to an aggregate quality of experience (QoE) metric characterizing a distribution of QoE levels for the client devices sharing the one or more shared network resources.