Signalling congestion status
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11412407B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-09

    申请号:US16265805

    申请日:2019-02-01

    发明人: Matt Halligan

    摘要: There is described an apparatus for a base station in a radio access network. The apparatus is configured to detect a change in a radio network congestion status associated with a cell or cell sector of the base station that is being used to serve a mobile device, the change being a change to a given one of a plurality of possible radio congestion levels. The apparatus starts a packet modification process to modify one or more packets in each of one or more uplink data flows from the mobile device to a core network of the radio access network, the one or more packets in each of the one or more uplink data flows being modified by the packet modification process to signal, to a server in the core network, the change in congestion status to the given one of the plurality of possible radio congestion levels.

    Identity management
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10440022B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15071021

    申请日:2016-03-15

    发明人: Matt Halligan

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 G06F21/62

    摘要: There are provided apparatuses and methods for providing user information stored at an access network to a content provider, the access network for providing a user device with access to the internet, the user information relating to a user of an application module stored on the user device, the user device for requesting and receiving content from a said content provider. A request for an identifier for the user device to use when requesting content from a content provider is received at an access network, which generates and transmits an identifier to the user device. A request from the content provider for user information is received at the access network, the request comprising the generated identifier. The access network obtains user information based on the identifier and transmits, to the content provider, the obtained user information.

    Determination of information relating to messages

    公开(公告)号:US10270835B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-23

    申请号:US14067741

    申请日:2013-10-30

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L29/08 H04L29/06

    摘要: Methods, apparatus and computer programs are provided for determining header data for and based on a plurality of messages. Each message comprises header data having a plurality of fields each of which has a value. A first message is received and data indicative of at least some of the header data of the first message is stored. A second message is received and a value for at least one given field associated with header data for the second message is determined based at least on the stored data and the header data of the second message. The determined value is other than a value of the given field of the second message.

    CACHING OF CONTENT
    4.
    发明申请
    CACHING OF CONTENT 审中-公开
    内容缓存

    公开(公告)号:US20140331266A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-06

    申请号:US14267772

    申请日:2014-05-01

    摘要: There is described a system of operating a network entity to distribute a media stream in a communications network. A plurality of different versions of the media stream are available from a content source, each version having a respective quality level different to that of the other versions and each version of the media stream comprises a plurality of consecutive portions. A first request is received from a user device for a portion of a first one of the versions of the media stream stored at a content source and a caching procedure is performed in response to receiving the first request. The caching procedure comprises requesting from the content source at least one portion of at least one of the other versions of the media stream or at least one other portion of the first one of the versions of the media stream; receiving the requested at least one portion or the at least one other portion; and causing the received at least one portion or the at least one other portion to be cached at a cache in the communication network.

    摘要翻译: 描述了操作网络实体以在通信网络中分发媒体流的系统。 媒体流的多个不同版本可从内容源获得,每个版本具有与其他版本不同的相应质量级别,并且媒体流的每个版本包括多个连续部分。 从用户设备接收存储在内容源的媒体流的第一版本的一部分的第一请求,并且响应于接收到第一请求而执行高速缓存过程。 高速缓存过程包括从内容源请求媒体流的其他版本的至少一个的至少一个的一部分或媒体流的第一个版本的至少一个其他部分; 接收所请求的至少一个部分或至少一个其他部分; 以及使所接收的至少一个部分或所述至少一个其它部分被缓存在所述通信网络中的高速缓存中。

    Reverse DNS lookup with modified reverse mappings
    5.
    发明授权
    Reverse DNS lookup with modified reverse mappings 有权
    反向DNS查找与修改反向映射

    公开(公告)号:US08762573B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-24

    申请号:US13078840

    申请日:2011-04-01

    申请人: Gary Robinson

    发明人: Gary Robinson

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16 G06F15/173

    摘要: In accordance with the invention, embodiments of a DNS server, a DNS proxy process, and an intermediate server (IMS) are described. The DNS server, DNS proxy process, and intermediate server (IMS) described herein utilize a source IP address for a client device, in combination with a destination IP address for a host server, in reverse mapping operations in order to accurately provide a hostname originally requested by the client device.

    摘要翻译: 根据本发明,描述了DNS服务器,DNS代理进程和中间服务器(IMS)的实施例。 本文所述的DNS服务器,DNS代理处理和中间服务器(IMS)在反向映射操作中使用与客户端设备的源IP地址结合主机服务器的目的地IP地址,以便准确地提供主机名 由客户端设备请求。

    DETERMINATION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO MESSAGES
    6.
    发明申请
    DETERMINATION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO MESSAGES 审中-公开
    确定与信息有关的信息

    公开(公告)号:US20140122647A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-01

    申请号:US14067741

    申请日:2013-10-30

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08

    摘要: Methods, apparatus and computer programs are provided for determining header data for and based on a plurality of messages. Each message comprises header data having a plurality of fields each of which has a value. A first message is received and data indicative of at least some of the header data of the first message is stored. A second message is received and a value for at least one given field associated with header data for the second message is determined based at least on the stored data and the header data of the second message. The determined value is other than a value of the given field of the second message.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于确定和基于多个消息的头部数据的方法,装置和计算机程序。 每个消息包括具有多个字段的标题数据,每个字段都具有一个值。 接收到第一消息,并且存储指示第一消息的头部数据中的至少一些的数据。 接收到第二消息,并且至少基于所存储的数据和第二消息的报头数据来确定与第二消息的报头数据相关联的至少一个给定字段的值。 确定的值不同于第二消息的给定字段的值。

    Method for determining a play duration estimate of an adaptive bit rate media presentation

    公开(公告)号:US11595708B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US17584203

    申请日:2022-01-25

    摘要: There is described a method for determining a play duration estimate of an adaptive bit rate (ABR) media presentation. The method comprises receiving at a network entity a media playlist manifest file of the media presentation, wherein the manifest file is transmitted from a content server to a client and comprises a plurality of entries, each entry linking to a respective different one of a plurality of media segments of the media presentation. The method further comprises determining a data size of the manifest file; and determining a play duration estimate of the media presentation based on the determined data size of the manifest file, a first value that represents a data size of each of the plurality of entries in the manifest file and a second value that represents a play duration of each media segment of the plurality of media segments of the media presentation.

    Data replication
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11366827B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US16365545

    申请日:2019-03-26

    发明人: Matt Halligan

    摘要: A method of data replication in a distributed storage system of a mobile communications network is disclosed. The distributed storage system comprises a plurality of geographically separated storage locations. The method comprises, at a first storage location: receiving a first request for data stored in the distributed storage system; determining, based on the first request, further, different, data to be stored at the first storage location; determining a second, different, storage location, of the plurality of storage locations, at which the determined further data is stored; sending, to the determined second storage location, a replication request for replicating the determined further data; receiving, in response to the replication request, the further data; and storing the further data such that the further data is replicated at the first storage location in advance of a further request for the further data being received at the first storage location. Apparatus is also disclosed.

    Method and system for congestion monitoring in a data network

    公开(公告)号:US10103990B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US14930250

    申请日:2015-11-02

    摘要: A method, system and computer program for congestion monitoring in a data network. The method comprises: determining, at a server in the data network, that a user device has initiated a data session with the data network; monitoring, at the server, a plurality of data flows associated with the data session to determine an average bandwidth of the plurality of data flows; and determining a congestion status of the data session based on the average bandwidth and one or more criteria.