Patent ID: 9591517
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems: monitoring connections of a plurality of clients, the plurality of clients physically located in one or more geographic regions; determining that one or more of the clients have experienced connection problems in a particular one of the geographic regions; and maintaining a historical log of information related to the connections, the historical log comprising the connection problems; estimating, based on the historical log, capacity of a wireless network associated with the particular one of the geographic regions; and in response to a determination that a number of clients in the particular one of the geographic regions exceeds the estimated capacity of the wireless network, sending, to the one or more clients in the particular one of the geographic regions, an instruction for the one or more clients to enter a reduced bandwidth mode which permits only a particular type or types of content for uploading from the one or more clients to a system, wherein each of the one or more clients in the particular one of the geographic regions is operable to upload data based at least in part on the reduced bandwidth mode.