System and method for monitoring whole home digital video recorder usage for internet protocol television

摘要

The subject disclosure describes identifying a table associated with a set-top box that receives services from equipment of a video head-end office, where the table indicates that the set-top box has requested a video stream that would exceed a first number of video streams allocated to the set-top box and would exceed a bandwidth configuration, detecting a conflicting event according to information in the table, reconfiguring the bandwidth configuration allocated to the plurality of set-top boxes to resolve the conflicting event, determining a second number of video streams requested by the plurality of set-top boxes when the conflicting event occurred, determining a third number of video streams to resolve the conflicting event based on a difference between the first number of video streams and the second number of video streams, and instructing the equipment to provide the third number of video streams to the set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device, comprising instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
determining a bandwidth configuration of a plurality of customer premises equipment that receive services from equipment of a video head-end office of a television network; storing the bandwidth configuration of the plurality of customer premises equipment in a memory; processing a data file associated with the plurality of the customer premises equipment, wherein the data file indicates that a first equipment of the plurality of the customer premises equipment has requested a video stream; detecting from the data file a conflicting event based on a determination that supplying the video stream to the first equipment would exceed a first number of video streams supplied to the plurality of the customer premises equipment and would exceed the bandwidth configuration of the plurality of the customer premises; determining, according to the data file, a second number of video streams to supply to the plurality of the customer premises to accommodate the video stream requested by the first equipment of the plurality of customer premises equipment; and providing from the equipment of the video head-end office a third number of video streams to the first equipment of the plurality of customer premises equipment to resolve the conflicting event, wherein the third number of video streams is determined from a difference between the first number of video streams and the second number of video streams, and wherein the third number of video streams includes the video stream requested by the first equipment of the plurality of customer premises equipment.