Patent ID: 9667562
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: obtaining a first message from an application, the application being associated with a variable bit-rate media flow, the first message including information, the information including at least an approximately minimum bandwidth at which the variable bit-rate media flow may operate and an increment by which a bandwidth of the variable bit-rate media flow may be trimmed; determining an amount of available bandwidth in a network; identifying, from the first message, the approximately minimum bandwidth at which the variable bit-rate media flow may operate and the increment by which the bandwidth of the variable bit-rate media flow may be trimmed; and identifying a bandwidth allocation, the bandwidth allocation being identified based on the amount of available bandwidth in the network, the approximately minimum bandwidth at which the variable bit-rate media flow may operate, and the increment by which the bandwidth of the variable bit-rate media flow may be trimmed.