US 12,120,169 B2
Edge node control
Per Lindgren, Strangnas (SE); and Christer Bohm, Nacka (SE)
Assigned to Net Insight AB, Solna (SE)
Appl. No. 16/079,347
Filed by Net Insight AB, Solna (SE)
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/054290
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 23, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/144645, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 31, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 1650254-4 (SE), filed on Feb. 26, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0058747 A1, Feb. 21, 2019
Int. Cl. H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04L 65/80 (2022.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/238 (2011.01); H04N 21/2383 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/6375 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04W 4/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 65/765 (2022.05) [H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/2343 (2013.01); H04N 21/238 (2013.01); H04N 21/2383 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/25808 (2013.01); H04N 21/44209 (2013.01); H04N 21/6375 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04W 4/18 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
streaming, from a streaming edge server, a live video as a live video stream to each client device of a plurality of client devices;
identifying a group of two or more client devices of the plurality of client devices that are connected to a common network resource, wherein the common network resource includes a common base station or aggregation network;
receiving, by a control server that is in communication with the streaming edge server, analyzer data from each client device in the group indicating a number of times that each client device in the group has requested retransmission of a portion of the live video stream;
determining, by the control server, that a rate at which a number of retransmission requests are collectively received from all of the two or more client devices in the group during the portion of the live video stream exceeds a threshold rate of retransmission requests;
instructing, by the control server, each client device in the group to request retransmission of only audio and I-frames of the live video stream; and
instructing, by the control server, the streaming edge server to reduce a highest selectable bitrate of the live video stream to each client device in the group.