Regulating content streams from a weighted fair queuing scheduler using weights defined for user equipment nodes

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9100464
APP PUB NO 20140068076A1
SERIAL NO

13597333

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Apparatuses and methods control communication of content streams through a content distribution network. A data repository is accessed to retrieve information which identifies a group of user equipment nodes that are registered with one of a plurality of subscriber accounts and which further identifies weight values that are associated with the group of the user equipment nodes. Communication bit rates that are provided by a weighted fair queuing scheduler node to individual ones of a group of the content streams within bandwidth allocated to a virtual pipe for carrying the group of the content streams through the content distribution network to the group of the user equipment nodes, are regulated responsive to the weight values associated with the group of the user equipment nodes. Weighted fair queuing scheduling can thereby be provided at a virtual pipe level and, furthermore, at a user equipment node level.

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  • ERICSSON AB

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Dasher, Charles Lawrenceville, US 51 978
Forsman, Bob Sugar Hill, US 13 233
Phillips, Chris Hartwell, US 149 2292
Reynolds, Jennifer Duluth, US 17 351

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