Patent ID: 9398337
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for supporting video transmission and reception in a bitrate selection server of a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving a metadata request of a video from a terminal; transmitting the received metadata request to a media server based on the metadata request; receiving a video metadata response from the media server; storing the received video metadata and transmitting the received video metadata to the terminal; requesting subscriber information of the terminal to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) and receiving the subscriber information; receiving a video segment request of the video from the terminal; sending a request for information of a base station and the terminal corresponding to the video segment request of the video to the base station; receiving the information of the terminal and the base station from the base station; and determining a bitrate of the video based on the video metadata, the subscriber information, and the information of the terminal and the base station, wherein the receiving of the information of the terminal and the base station comprises receiving at least one of, a number of a Radio Resource Blocks (RBs) assigned to a video traffic of the whole terminals in a cell by the base station and a number of RBs necessary to transfer data to each of the terminals, from the base station.