US 12,382,479 B2
Uplink and downlink streaming bit rate assistance in 4G and 5G networks
Charles Nung Lo, San Diego, CA (US); Imed Bouazizi, Frisco, TX (US); Nikolai Konrad Leung, San Francisco, CA (US); and Thomas Stockhammer, Bergen (DE)
Assigned to QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego (CO)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,504.
Application 18/182,504 is a division of application No. 16/874,955, filed on May 15, 2020, granted, now 11,638,259.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/916,451, filed on Oct. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217472 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/51 (2023.01); H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/543 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 72/51 (2023.01) [H04W 8/22 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04W 72/543 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing streaming service assistance in a wireless network, comprising:
sending, by a processor of an application function (AF) network computing device, a radio access network (RAN) capacity request to a second network computing device in response to receiving a network assistance request for a streaming application of a user equipment (UE) computing device, the network assistance request specifying an increased bitrate relative to a current bitrate utilized for a streaming session associated with the UE computing device, the UE computing device being separate from the second network computing device; and
further in response to the network assistance request, sending, by the processor of the AF network computing device, a capacity need message to a third computing device of the wireless network, wherein the capacity need message identifies an amount of data to be transferred during the streaming session, or during one or more intervals of the streaming session, for the UE computing device, the third computing device being separate from the UE computing device, the amount of data corresponding to the increase in bitrate for the streaming session for the UE.