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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:
Sep. 05, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Sangeeta Ramakrishnan, Saratoga, CA (US);

Xiaoqing Zhu, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/917 (2013.01); H04L 12/825 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/00 (2011.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/6379 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/828 (2013.01); H04L 41/0896 (2013.01); H04L 41/5067 (2013.01); H04L 47/25 (2013.01); H04L 47/70 (2013.01); H04L 47/76 (2013.01); H04L 65/00 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/00 (2013.01); H04N 21/234354 (2013.01); H04N 21/2401 (2013.01); H04N 21/6379 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various implementations disclosed herein enable a more efficient allocation of one or more shared network resources amongst a plurality of client devices based on media content complexity and client device resource status in order to better manage perceptual playback quality. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a plurality of resource constraint values associated with a plurality of client devices sharing a network resource, and jointly determining a respective encoding rate level selection and a corresponding resource allocation for each of the plurality of client devices based on a combination of one or more resource constraint values and the assessment of the respective perceptual quality level values, such that a combination of resulting quality levels satisfies a joint quality criterion.


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