Patent ID: 9166889
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining, via a processor, an actual bandwidth used for communicating a single audio stream from a content server, via the Internet, to a client, wherein the client is physically separate from the content server; predicting a bandwidth required to communicate the audio stream from the content server to each of a plurality of clients via individual data stream connections over the Internet, to yield a predicted bandwidth, wherein each of the plurality of clients is physically separate from the content server in the Internet; reporting a difference between the actual bandwidth and the predicted bandwidth; reporting, at a first time, available networks that are available to the plurality of clients, wherein the Internet is one of the available networks; and reporting, at a second time which is later than the first time and upon determining availability of the available networks to the plurality of clients changes relative to the availability of the available networks at the first time, predicted changes to bandwidth savings, monetary savings, temporal savings, hardware resource savings, and data communication savings associated with the plurality of clients.