发明名称 Video content monitoring and display based on popularity
摘要 A method of providing video content includes monitoring packets communicated between data processing devices in a network. The packets are monitored at a third data processing device in the network backbone. Based on the monitored packets, statistics are collected that indicate the popularity of video content items available via the network. The most popular video content items, as indicated by the collected statistics, are made available via a web page.
申请公布号 US8812710(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.08.19
申请号 US200711868137 申请日期 2007.10.05
申请人 AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. 发明人 O'Hern William
分类号 H04N21/25 主分类号 H04N21/25
代理机构 Guntin & Gust, PLC 代理人 Guntin & Gust, PLC ;Trementozzi Ralph
主权项 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a first data processing device, over a wide area network, a packet from a second data processing device, the packet indicative of a request for a plurality of video content items at a third data processing device; identifying, by the system, the plurality of video content items based on a network traffic flow characteristic associated with the packet, wherein the network traffic flow characteristic indicates a peer-to-peer communication; determining, by the system, a popularity level associated with each video content item of the plurality of video content items in response to receiving the packet; comparing, by the system, for each video content item of the plurality of video content items, the popularity level to a popularity threshold; receiving, by the system, a protocol indicator indicating one of a multicast protocol, a unicast protocol or a combination thereof, wherein the receiving comprises receiving the protocol indicator as part of a multidimensional selection obtained by a user-configurable options web page; and presenting, by the system, a portion of a video content item of the plurality of video content items at a separate web page according to the protocol indicator for which the popularity level exceeds the popularity threshold, wherein the popularity threshold has a value greater than zero.
地址 Atlanta GA US