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 media network; storing the bandwidth configuration of the plurality of customer premises equipment; processing a data file associated with the plurality of the customer premises equipment, wherein the data file indicates a first equipment of the plurality of the customer premises equipment that 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 or would exceed the bandwidth configuration of the plurality of the customer premises equipment; determining a number of times that other conflicting events were created by the first equipment; and updating the first number of video streams or the bandwidth configuration based on the number of times.