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

Claim 10:
11. A method of streamlining image processing in a communication system including a gateway coupled to an edge server having an edge server monitor agent, the gateway having a gateway monitor agent and an image inspector, wherein the edge server and the gateway are each capable of performing an identical image inference task relating to processing the image stream, the method comprising:
receiving an image stream from an end device;
collecting utilization rate data of the gateway via the gateway monitor agent;

collecting inspection data from the received image stream via the image inspector;
collecting utilization rate data of the edge server via the edge server monitor agent;
selecting 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 via an analytics manager coupled to the gateway and the edge server; and
assigning the image inference task relating to processing the image stream to one of the gateway or the edge server based on the allocation strategy.