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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2022
Applicant:

T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Hemanth B. Pawar, Brambleton, VA (US);

Krishna Sitaram, Chantilly, VA (US);

Shilpa K. Srinivas, Brambleton, VA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/75 (2022.05); H04W 36/0016 (2013.01); H04W 36/00698 (2023.05); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04L 12/1827 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for proactively reconfiguring communication to a user equipment device (UE) in anticipation the UE experiencing a coverage-throughput reduction when the UE is receiving streaming media. An example method includes (i) predicting, when the UE is receiving streaming media from a media server, that the UE is going to experience the coverage-throughput reduction and (ii) based at least in part on the predicting, proactively initiating transcoding of the streaming media to reduce a bit rate of the streaming media en route to the UE in a communication path between the media server and the UE, the initiating occurring before the UE experiences the coverage-throughput reduction so that the bit rate of the streaming media is reduced by when the UE experiences the coverage-throughput reduction.


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