Patent ID: 11895530
Assignee: SAANKHYA LABS PVT. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 22:
23. A method for switching at least one User Equipment (UE) from a unicast mode to a broadcast or multicast mode to transmit a streaming media content to the at least one User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:
storing real-time and historical data received from a plurality of sources in a database;
continuously analyzing, using an analytics engine, the real-time and the historical data stored in the database to identify the at least one UE that receives a streaming media content through the unicast mode and the streaming media content to be offloaded, wherein an offload is a process by which certain portions of the streaming media content is shifted from the unicast mode to the broadcast or multicast mode;
generating, using the analytics engine, a cluster of UEs that receive a same streaming media content based on identified UEs;
performing, using the analytics engine, a cluster pruning to generate a sub cluster of UEs from the cluster of UEs;
prioritizing and ranking, using the analytics engine, each sub cluster of the UE to be offloaded and placing prioritized sub cluster of the UEs in an offload queue based on a switching benefit analysis;
fetching, using a one-to-many offload core, entries that correspond to the streaming media content and the at least one UE from the offload queue;
scheduling, using the one-to-many offload core, the streaming media content for the broadcast or the multicast mode based on a number of channels and a bandwidth available;
sending, using the one-to-many offload core, a trigger to each of the UEs that needs to start receiving the streaming media content in the broadcast or the multicast mode; and
switching, using a real-time switching module associated with the at least one UE, the at least one UE from the unicast mode to the broadcast or the multicast mode based on the trigger received from the one-to-many offload core.