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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2012
Applicants:
Jochen Eisl, Garching, DE;
Gerhard Kuhn, Munich, DE;
Matthias Lott, Planegg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/608 (2013.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); H04L 47/70 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/38 (2013.01); H04L 67/06 (2013.01); H04L 67/322 (2013.01); H04L 29/08729 (2013.01); H04L 29/08792 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment includes a method and apparatus for allocating resources for the streaming of multimedia content in a network. The method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine media characteristics of the multimedia content, receiving a request to access the multimedia content from a user, and sending a request for resources for the multimedia content to a traffic management node. The request for resources includes the determined media characteristics of the multimedia content.