Patent ID: 7450508
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing a dynamic quality-of-service (QoS) mapping in digital home service provided over a service network, comprising: a media server for providing network-adaptive media streams for the digital home service; a media gateway for coupling the media server to the service network; a plurality of clients coupled to the service network for receiving media streams from the media server, said clients measuring a network state of the service network and system states of the clients through a combination of active and passive monitoring of selected parameters associated with said service network and said client performance; and a monitoring server including a domain manager comprising: a problem decision module for determining an overload type from the system overload, network overload, and system/network overload by receiving the system condition matrix and the network condition matrix; and a resource-management unit for creating one indication of a system overload indication, a network overload indication, and a system/network overload indication according to the determined overload type and transmitting the created indication to the media server and the media gateway.