Patent ID: 11881998
Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A device comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor configured to:
determine that a provider data system is providing a first stream to a first client via a gateway and a second stream to a second client via the gateway, the first stream comprising a transcoded version of the second stream;
determine that the gateway has a transcoding capability;
responsive to the transcoding capability; and
instruct the gateway to transcode the second stream at the gateway to generate a replacement stream for the first stream for transmission to the first client, wherein the provider data system, the gateway, the first client, and the second client are each separate devices; and
wherein a transcoding capability of the gateway is assigned to a virtual function provisioned to send the transcoded version of the second stream to the first client; and wherein network resources for provisioning the second stream is assigned from the provider data system to the gateway to the virtual function.