Apparatus and methods for identifying and characterizing latency in a content delivery network

    公开(公告)号:US11336551B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US16939989

    申请日:2020-07-27

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for identification and characterization of latency in a content delivery network. In one embodiment, interaction of users with content is recorded via collection of tuning records; the latency is then utilized to adjust the timing on the tuning records to account for lapses in time for sending these between entities of the network and the user devices, and for processing occurring at the devices. The latency is determined by taking into account a device specific latency component, and a network latency component. The network latency component is determined in one variant by sending a message to the device from the network requesting a response. Once the timing of the tuning records is adjusted, these tuning records may be relied upon as being accurate on a second-by-second basis. Accordingly, tuning records may be obtained and analyzed for content which lasts for a very short period of time.

    Large-scale distributed timing, calibration and control system

    公开(公告)号:US11323789B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-03

    申请号:US16966330

    申请日:2019-02-08

    摘要: A method of distance synchronization of a series of remote optical receiver points with an optical transmission point, the method including the steps of: (a) sending an optical timing pulse from the optical transmission point to each of the series of remote optical receiver points and back; (b) determining a round trip time of the timing pulse; and (c) storing an indicative measure of the roundtrip time of the timing pulse and utilising the indicative measure to adjust the timing of signals at the remote optical receiver points to determine the relative reception time of signals received by the series of remote optical receiver points.

    DYNAMIC PREDICTION AND MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATION SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220116297A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-14

    申请号:US17645879

    申请日:2021-12-23

    摘要: In general, the disclosure describes techniques for adaptively determining one or more parameters of a service level agreement of an application. For instance, a network device may monitor round-trip times of a plurality of packets of a data flow of an application being transmitted over a link between an application server and a client device. The network device may determine an amount of retransmission of packets occurring during transmission of the plurality of packets of the data flow. The network device may predict, based at least in part on the round-trip times of the plurality of packets of the data flow and the amount of retransmission of packets occurring during transmission of the plurality of packets of the data flow, a round-trip time parameter for a service level agreement associated with the application.

    POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM, POSITION ESTIMATION SERVER, AND POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20220109955A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17428270

    申请日:2020-01-27

    摘要: Provided is a position estimation method in which a measurement signal and a response signal are transmitted and received between multiple n wireless stations respectively provided with known antennas installed at known positions different from each other and a wireless terminal station provided with a terminal antenna, RTT, which is a round-trip delay time of the transmission and reception, and RSSI, which is a strength of received radio waves of the signals, are measured, and a position of the wireless terminal station is estimated. The method includes: obtaining, as the position of the wireless terminal station, a solution of simultaneous equations of an RTT evaluation function fti for evaluating the estimate value of the position of the wireless terminal station that is estimated based on the RTT measured between the wireless terminal station and the known antenna i (i=1, 2, . . . , n), and an RSSI evaluation function fri for evaluating the estimate value of the position of the wireless terminal station that is estimated based on the RSSI, or a value obtained by searching for an estimate value so that an error evaluation function ferror obtained by combining the RTT evaluation function and the RSSI evaluation function is minimum.

    Trip time estimation for transport control protocol

    公开(公告)号:US11297169B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US17126176

    申请日:2020-12-18

    申请人: Google LLC

    发明人: Akash Deshpande

    摘要: A method for estimation of performance characteristics for transport control protocol includes sparsely sampling, at a middlebox, a plurality of packets from a transport control protocol (TCP) connection between a source endpoint and a destination endpoint through the middlebox. For each packet of the sampled plurality of packets, the method includes generating a time stamp when the packet is sampled and recording a sequence number and an acknowledgement number for the respective packet. The acknowledgement number is recorded when the acknowledgement number exists for the respective packet. The method also includes generating an estimated performance characteristic for the TCP connection between the source endpoint and the destination endpoint through the middlebox over the period of time based on at least two of a respective time stamp, a respective sequence number, or a respective acknowledgement number from one or more of the sampled plurality of packets.

    Multimedia resource synchronous pushing method based on heterogeneous network

    公开(公告)号:US11265587B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US16319531

    申请日:2017-08-29

    摘要: The present disclosure discloses a method for synchronously pushing a multimedia resource based on a heterogeneous network. The method includes: step 1: obtaining, by a server, end-to-end broadband network delay information or broadband network delay and available bandwidth information of different users; step 2: after receiving a client request, calculating, by the server according to the end-to-end broadband network delay information or the broadband network delay and available bandwidth information of the different users, a moment at which the multimedia resource can be synchronously presented; and step 3: sending, by the server, the multimedia resource after the moment at which the multimedia resource can be synchronously presented, and synchronously playing, by a client, content according to a start presentation time of the multimedia resource, so that broadband content of the different users can be synchronously presented.

    Method, electronic device, and storage means for controlling data communication

    公开(公告)号:US11265051B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US17256463

    申请日:2019-06-27

    摘要: According to various embodiments, a method of controlling data communication of an electronic device, the method comprising performing the directional wireless communication together with an external electronic device capable of performing the directional wireless communication and the omni-directional wireless communication, by using the first wireless communication circuit, determining the distance between an electronic device and the external electronic device, at least partially on the basis of a signal of the external electronic device received by using the second wireless communication circuit, when the stop or degradation of the directional wireless communication is detected, and determining whether to reattempt the directional wireless communication using the first wireless communication circuit, at least partially on the basis of the determined distance or to start the omni-directional wireless communication using the second wireless communication circuit. Other embodiments are possible.