Channel conservation for anticipated load surge in video servers
US5768681A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 22, 1995 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 22, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N7/17336
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for scheduling the number of channels in video-on-demand servers so as to deal with time varying load. The scheduling process is hierarchical. A higher level scheduler controls the rate of channel consumption based on anticipated load, and a lower level scheduler selects the waiting client requests to be served when a channel is allocated by the higher level scheduler.
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