STREAMING POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A streaming policy management system and method wherein bandwidth may be allocated based on external device information received from a streaming client device connected to one or more external audio/video (A/V) devices. When a streaming network back office receives a request from the streaming client device for delivery of a particular content, wherein the request includes external device information of one or more external A/V devices connected to the streaming client device, a bandwidth is determined for streaming the particular content to the streaming client device and a request may be made to a content delivery network to create a distribution pipe having the bandwidth to accommodate the delivery of the particular content. A manifest file is provided to the streaming client device that includes one or more pointers that point to content segments of the particular content.

主权项

1. A method performed by a streaming client device, the method comprising:
obtaining external device information from one or more external audio/visual (A/V) devices connected to the streaming client device; and registering with a subscriber policy management system to add the external device information of the one or more external A/V devices in a subscriber profile associated with the streaming client device in order to enable a streaming content policy server to determine a bandwidth for streaming a particular content to the streaming client device based at least in part upon the external device information when the particular content is requested by the streaming client device.