Patent ID: 9154247
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A live uplink transmission management method for managing in real time, by a broadcast manager, a plurality of simultaneous live uplink transmission events between a plurality of remote content sources and a plurality of broadcast distributors separate from the broadcast manager, each transmission event including wireless transmission of real time content over one or more wireless channels from a remote content source to a broadcast distributor, the method comprising the steps of: (i) receiving at the broadcast manager, metadata information describing the transmission of the real time content of the plurality of live uplink transmission events, without receiving at the broadcast manager the content of the uplink transmission events, the metadata information originated from a plurality of the content sources; (ii) processing in real-time, by the broadcast manager, the received metadata information; and (iii) managing, by the broadcast manager, the transmission of at least one of the plurality of live uplink transmission events, from the respective content source to the respective broadcast distributor, based on the received metadata of a plurality of the uplink transmission events and their processing, wherein processing the received metadata information comprises identifying network congestion or over-utilization and wherein managing the transmission comprises providing instructions in response to the identified congestion or over-utilization, and wherein the receiving, processing and managing are performed by the broadcast manager, which is separate and remote from the content sources and broadcast distributors.