Local area-networked system having intelligent traffic control and efficient bandwidth management
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    发明授权
    Local area-networked system having intelligent traffic control and efficient bandwidth management 有权
    具有智能流量控制和高效带宽管理的局域网系统

    公开(公告)号:US07529263B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-05-05

    申请号:US10345870

    申请日:2003-01-16

    IPC分类号: H04L12/64

    摘要: A centralized interactive TV recording and reproduction system linking several “Quality of Service” (QoS) reproduction and control units (such as television and audio reproduction receivers), as well as high bandwidth non-QoS legacy devices such as PCs, via a Home Area Network (HAN) to a centralized media server, has novel traffic control to prevent non-QoS devices from establishing and maintaining high-bandwidth network connections during the real-time transmission of media (video and/or audio) information from the media server to the QoS devices. In the preferred embodiment, the media server also contains a gateway device for connecting the HAN to a Wide Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network, and/or the Internet, and the media server also receives video and audio signals from sources such as cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcast, etc. The media server also contains a network router. All traffic from non-QoS devices is routed through the media server, and the media server limits the delivery of packets sent from source non-QoS devices to destination non-QoS devices. As a further refinement to prevent interruptions in real-time transmissions of video and audio information to QoS devices, the information can be buffered at the QoS device level.

    摘要翻译: 一个集中的交互式电视记录和再现系统,通过家庭区域连接多个“服务质量”(QoS)再现和控制单元(如电视和音频再现接收机)以及高带宽非QoS传统设备(如PC) 网络(HAN)到集中式媒体服务器,具有新颖的流量控制,以防止非QoS设备在从媒体服务器到媒体(视频和/或音频)信息的实时传输期间建立和维护高带宽网络连接 QoS设备。 在优选实施例中,媒体服务器还包括用于将HAN连接到广域网,城域网和/或因特网的网关设备,并且媒体服务器还从源(例如有线,卫星)接收视频和音频信号 ,地面广播等。媒体服务器还包含一个网络路由器。 来自非QoS设备的所有业务通过媒体服务器路由,媒体服务器限制从源非QoS设备发送到目的非QoS设备的数据包传送。 作为进一步改进以防止将视频和音频信息实时传输到QoS设备的中断,可以在QoS设备级别缓冲信息。