{
  "patent_number": "US 9479807",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Home Gateways Manage Video Streaming Traffic to Prevent Buffering",
  "original_title": "Gateway-based video client-proxy sub-system for managed delivery of A/V content using fragmented method in a stateful system",
  "summary": "A system where home internet gateways report device buffer status to a central server to intelligently manage bandwidth for multiple video streams.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a method for a home gateway (like your cable modem or router) to act as a middleman for video streaming. Instead of every device fighting for bandwidth blindly, the gateway monitors the buffer status of each device—essentially how much video data is already stored locally—and sends this information to a central server. The server uses these 'beacons' of data to decide how much bandwidth to give each device. By knowing which devices are about to run out of video data, the system can prioritize traffic to prevent interruptions in playback.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover systems that manage bandwidth without using buffer status information from the client device.",
    "Does not cover peer-to-peer video delivery where the gateway is not the primary traffic controller.",
    "Does not cover methods that do not use a stateful server scheduler to aggregate data from multiple gateways."
  ],
  "filed": "2012-10-01",
  "granted": "2016-10-25",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Arris Enterprises LLC",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/arris-enterprises-llc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Carol Ansley",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/carol-ansley"
    },
    {
      "name": "Marcin Morgos",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/marcin-morgos"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wade Ernest Carter",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/wade-ernest-carter"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mark Bugajski",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/mark-bugajski"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 24,
  "tags": [
    "telecommunications",
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software"
  ],
  "abstract": "Systems and methods can provide a gateway-based video client proxy subsystem for managing delivery of segmented video in a stateful system. Such systems can operating to provide segmented video streams client devices via customer premise gateway devices. The system can receive state information from the customer premise gateway devices for use in managing network resources associated transmitting with the segmented video streams, and deriving allocations of bandwidth to flows associated with the client devices based upon the state information received from the customer premise gateway devices.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9479807/netflix-interactive-content-bandersnatch",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9479807/netflix-interactive-content-bandersnatch/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US9479807",
  "relatedPatents": []
}