Patent ID: 9692801
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for controlling traffic by a network server in a content transmission system, the method comprising: receiving, from a content server, representations and metadata including information on the representations, the representations and the metadata being included in a content; measuring an amount of the traffic managed by the network server; determining whether the amount of the traffic is greater than a threshold value; modulating the metadata by disabling information on at least one of the representations of the content; modulating, if the amount of the traffic is greater than the threshold value, the representations based on the disabled information on the at least one of the representations; generating a modulated content comprising the modulated metadata and the modulated representations; and transmitting, to a client, the modulated content, wherein the information on the at least one of the representations is disabled based on a largest bandwidth size of the representations.