Patent ID: 9723042
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method to optimize load transportation between a peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming network and an access network, the method comprising: selecting, by a peer, in the access network a channel to use; sending a request comprising information of a selected channel, from the access network to the P2P live streaming network; detecting, in a converter node connecting the P2P live streaming network and the access network, if a number of peers in the access network using the selected channel has reached a predetermined threshold value; and converting, in the converter node, chunks that are parts of the selected channel and arriving from the peers in the P2P live streaming network, from a P2P format to a multicast format, to optimize the load transportation between the P2P live streaming network and the access network, wherein a request is intercepted by using Deep Packet Inspection; extracting in the detected peers bearer information from a bearer info message received from a multicast server; receiving by the detected peers a switch message from the converter node; opening in the detected peers a multicast socket; feeding a channel stream received to a detected peer from the multicast socket to a video client; and stopping in the detected peers a P2P stream client.