US 12,010,714 B2
Resource management concept
Thomas Schierl, Berlin (DE); Thomas Wirth, Berlin (DE); Thomas Haustein, Potsdam (DE); and Yago Sanchez De La Fuente, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,246.
Application 15/712,009 is a division of application No. 14/256,703, filed on Apr. 18, 2014, granted, now 9,775,163, issued on Sep. 26, 2017.
Application 17/558,246 is a continuation of application No. 17/146,184, filed on Jan. 11, 2021, granted, now 11,240,821.
Application 17/146,184 is a continuation of application No. 15/712,009, filed on Sep. 21, 2017, granted, now 10,945,269, issued on Mar. 9, 2021.
Application 14/256,703 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2012/070890, filed on Oct. 22, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/550,126, filed on Oct. 21, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191872 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/00 (2023.01); H04W 28/16 (2009.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/54 (2023.01) [H04W 28/16 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. User entity for communicating via communication resources, on which a client is operative, wherein the user entity comprises
an electronic circuit, or a microprocessor, configured to
determine a fill level of a buffer of the client for buffering a media content retrieved by the client from a server,
derive a set of parameters from a media presentation description received from the server, the set of parameters indicating a bandwidth for each of the versions of different bandwidths of the media content, and
inform a resource manager responsible for assigning the communication resources to a plurality of user entities to which the user entity belongs, on
the fill level, and
wherein the user entity is configured to inform the resource manager on the fill level via messages which indicate, as a first addressee, the resource manager, wherein the first addressee is different from a second addressee as which the server is indicated by media requests sent from the client to the server in order to retrieve the media content from the server.