APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FILL FACTOR OF CLIENT INPUT BUFFERS OF A REAL TIME CONTENT DISTRIBUTION

摘要

The invention concerns a solution for detecting conditions of dearth and overflow of a client input buffer to a real time content distribution. Said detection is performed upstream of clients through a dynamic estimation of the fill factor on the input buffers of said clients. Thus, it is possible to predict the occurrence of conditions of dearth or overflow and to take actions such as inserting stored video sequences or storing queueing packets.