Patent ID: 9525713
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of measuring availability of a media server that transmits media content to a plurality of users via data links of the media server, the method comprising: sampling, by one or more processors, a plurality of data buffers allocated in a random access memory of the media server, wherein the plurality of data buffers comprise socket send buffers that reside in a memory address space of an operating system of the media server, wherein the plurality of data buffers are sampled each at a sampling time instant, to determine whether the data buffers contain data being transmitted at the sampling time instances, wherein each data buffer is associated with one of the plurality of users and the data are stored in the data buffers for transmission to the plurality of users via the data links, and wherein the plurality of data buffers are sampled through API calls to the operating system; calculating, by the one or more processors, a saturation score based on the sampling, wherein the saturation score is indicative of a number of the data buffers containing data being transmitted via the data links at the sampling time instances; and evaluating, by the one or more processors, the saturation score against a threshold saturation score for the media server, wherein the relationship between the scores indicates availability of the media server for additional media transmissions.