Patent ID: 11917230
Assignee: QUANTA CLOUD TECHNOLOGY INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A communication system comprising:
an end device generating an image stream;
a gateway coupled to the end device, the gateway including a gateway monitor agent collecting utilization rate data of the gateway, a task allocator, and an image inspector collecting inspection data from the received image stream;
an edge server coupled to the gateway via an uplink, the edge server including an edge server monitor agent collecting utilization rate data of the edge server, wherein the edge server and the gateway are each capable of performing an identical image inference task relating to processing the image stream; and
an analytics manager coupled to the gateway and the edge server, the analytics manager configured to determine an allocation strategy of the image inference task relating to processing the image stream to be performed by either the gateway or the edge server to maximize uplink bandwidth utilization from the gateway to the edge server, wherein the allocation strategy is selected based on a prediction of utilization rate determined by a utilization model trained by the collected utilization rate data from the gateway and the edge server, and wherein the task allocator employs the allocation strategy to assign the image inference task relating to processing the image stream to one of the gateway or the edge server.