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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:
Apr. 05, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2012
Applicants:

Joshua B. Gahm, Newtonville, MA (US);

Saamer Akhshabi, Atlanta, GA (US);

Ali C. Begen, London, CA;

David R. Oran, Cambridge, MA (US);

Biswaranjan Panda, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Frederick Baker, Goleta, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joshua B. Gahm, Newtonville, MA (US);

Saamer Akhshabi, Atlanta, GA (US);

Ali C. Begen, London, CA;

David R. Oran, Cambridge, MA (US);

Biswaranjan Panda, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Frederick Baker, Goleta, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/238 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/6332 (2011.01); H04N 21/6338 (2011.01); H04N 21/6373 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04L 12/813 (2013.01); H04L 12/815 (2013.01); H04L 12/819 (2013.01); H04L 12/811 (2013.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/823 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 47/20 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/23805 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/6332 (2013.01); H04N 21/6338 (2013.01); H04N 21/6373 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04L 47/193 (2013.01); H04L 47/215 (2013.01); H04L 47/22 (2013.01); H04L 47/32 (2013.01); H04L 47/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a current encoding rate requested by a client device for content received from a content source, setting at a network device a rate limit to limit the rate at which the content is received at the client device based on the current encoding rate, and adjusting the rate limit based on changes in the current encoding rate. The rate limit is set to allow the client device to change the current encoding rate to a next higher available encoding rate.


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