Dynamic audio/video channel bonding

摘要

A data communication architecture delivers a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architecture employs channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architecture communicates content according to an initial bonding configuration. The communication architecture may adjust the bonding configuration to adapt to bonding environment changes affecting the communication capabilities or requirements associated with transmitting the content.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
output interfaces to individual communication channels; a memory configured to store:
a bonding configuration specifying a first set of selected communication channels that form a bonded channel group, the first set selected from among the individual communication channels; andbonding adaptation criteria; and monitoring circuitry in communication with the memory and the output interfaces, the monitoring circuitry configured to:
identify a communication change while monitoring a data communication being transmitted according to the bonding configuration and across the first set of selected communication channels;determine a configuration change to the bonding configuration when the communication change satisfies the bonding adaptation criteria, the configuration change specifying an alteration to the first set of communication channels to arrive at a second set of selected communication channels selected from among the individual communication channels; andapply the configuration change to reform the bonded channel group according to the second set of selected communication channels instead of the first set of selected communication channels.