Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090089433 | Media-on-demand network, and a method of storing a media asset in a streaming node of the network - A method is provided of storing a media asset in a streaming node of a media-on-demand network. The network comprises a library node connected to a plurality of streaming nodes. The method comprises determining a popularity estimate for the asset at each of a plurality of the streaming node. The popularity estimates are aggregated to provide an aggregate popularity estimate for the asset over multiple streaming nodes. A determination is made whether the aggregate popularity estimate exceeds a predetermined threshold. Upon the threshold being exceeded, the asset is stored in one of the streaming nodes for use in addressing a request for the asset. | 04-02-2009 |
20090119455 | METHOD FOR CACHING CONTENT DATA PACKAGES IN CACHING NODES - A method for caching content data packages in caching nodes | 05-07-2009 |
20090144417 | RESILIENT SERVICE QUALITY IN A MANAGED MULTIMEDIA DELIVERY NETWORK - A managed multimedia delivery network ( | 06-04-2009 |
20090144431 | GUARANTEED QUALITY MULTIMEDIA SERVICE OVER MANAGED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK OR NGN - Methods and systems are provided for guaranteed quality multimedia service over managed peer-to-peer networks (also known as super peer-to-peer, sP2P, networks). A managed peer-to-peer network ( | 06-04-2009 |
20090185576 | RESOURCE ARBITRATION IN A CONVERGED MULTI-MEDIA ENVIRONMENT - A data communication system, comprising an access control agent arranged on a network to allocate network resources on one or more UE (user equipment) devices on the network according to one or more parameters, the access control agent being remote from the UE. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187620 | CONVERGED INFORMATION SYSTEMS - A notification system for providing notifications to a user equipment (UE) from a plurality of sources using at least two different protocols, over a network, comprising a notification agent arranged to receive notifications from said plurality of notification sources and which are intended for the UE, the notification agent including means for receiving the notifications using a plurality of protocols according to the protocol of the individual sources and for communicating notification to the UE using a single protocol and thereby moving core processing of the notification outside the UE. | 07-23-2009 |
20100250656 | CONTACT-ON-DEMAND METHOD AND NETWORK THEREFOR - A method is provided of providing a content-on-demand service to a user terminal in a system comprising a plurality of content-on-demand servers and a packet-switched network. The method comprises the steps of: a first of the content-on-demand servers seeking to reserve packet-switched network resources to enable service delivery to the user terminal, said first server sending a message that resource reservation was insufficient, a further of the content-on-demand servers seeking to reserve packet-switched network resources to enable service provision to the user terminal, said further server sending a message that resource reservation is sufficient, and said further server providing the content to the user terminal via the packet-switched network. | 09-30-2010 |
20120016993 | OPTIMISED BANDWIDTH UTILISATION IN NETWORKS - A multimedia delivery network, comprising network resource allocation means for allocating bandwidth to a network session between a UE (user equipment) device on the network and a delivery server, wherein the allocation means is adapted to reserve a nominal bandwidth for the network session when the session is opened, which permits delivery of data from the delivery server to the UE at a nominal service rate, and wherein the delivery server is adapted to increase the bandwidth of the session, to a higher bandwidth once the session has been opened, so as to permit delivery of data from the delivery server to the UE at a burst delivery rate higher than the nominal rate. | 01-19-2012 |
20120117604 | USER PROFILING - A method, in a communications network, of collecting profile data related to at least a first type of service a user is supplied with and making that data available to at least a second different type of service the user is supplied with over the network. | 05-10-2012 |