Patent ID: 8745679
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for allocating channel resources in a broadband access system during data transfer, including multimedia data, which includes (a) transferring, from at least one user access device to a network kernel of the broadband access system through a broadband access channel, (i) data comprising request for content data, including multimedia data, and (ii) user access device identification in the broadband access system through a broadband access system access level, (b) transferring, from the network kernel of the broadband access system to the at least one user access device, the content data, including multimedia data, in response to the request received from the user access device, (c) forming a content data transfer schedule, including multimedia data, for at least one of user access devices or for at least one group of user access devices, and (d) transferring the content data via unicast, multicast or broadband broadcast, including multimedia data, for the at least one of user access devices or for the at least one group of user access devices in accordance with the schedule, characterized by forming a transfers' base of constant content-channels, containing established frequency settings and signal modulation mode in a broadband access channel for transfer of multimedia data of constant content-channels and/or descriptors of constant content-channels, list of content-units, and metadata of content-units; forming a transfers' base of current dynamic content-channels, metadata of content-units and descriptors of current content-channels; forming multimedia database for VoD and/or nVoD services, containing content-units of constant or dynamic content-channels and being connected to the transfers' base of constant content-channels and to the transfers' base of current dynamic content-channels; forming multimedia channel data, containing advertising and/or information content-units; sending, to the at least one user access device, a data packet, including content-units of the constant content-channels, the current dynamic content-channels, the metadata of content-units, and/or the VoD and/or nVoD service data, and/or the multimedia channel data, sending, to the at least one user access device, a data packet including a request for choice in time interval T of a content-unit of constant content-channel and VoD service and/or nVoD service, forming a database on services server in the network kernel, the database including data associated with (i) every identified user or every identified user group, (ii) user choices of content-units of content-channels or VoD service and/or nVoD service, estimating a number of users with identical content-unit choice in time interval T based on the database and rearrangement of users or forming at least one new user group based on defined user quantity, establishing at least one boundary value for the number of users with identical choice of content-unit, forming a data transfer schedule with content-units of current dynamic content-channel and/or VoD and/or nVoD services in accordance to the data received from the at least one user access device, for the at least one user access device augmenting quantity of packets' transfer for multicast and broadband broadcast in downlink channel of broadband access for content-unit, which was chosen by a certain amount of users larger than boundary value, and/or multimedia data during time interval t forming and transfer of data block to at least one user access device, which contains data with informational notification to users about access time t transferring to at least one user access device, which did not send data about user's choice of content-unit according to the request, content-unit of constant content-channel according to current data transfer of content-channel to this specific user access device, which is similar in meaning with content-unit, which was translated during time T or content-unit of a constant content-channel, which was chosen by most users according to database statistics, forming and sending data, which contain contextual advertising or reference information, to user access device from group of identified users, forming and sending a message to the user access device about switching to another current dynamic content-channel or to download and playback previously formed data with by means of VoD and/or nVoD services to the identified user access device in each group of identified users, formed according to the database statistics, and forming of database on services server in the network kernel which contains data about every identified user or every identified user group, based on (i) data about request or selection of content-units or content-channels or VoD and or nVoD services or (ii) data with reference about content-unit or content-channel or VoD and/or nVoD services or (iii) data about quantity and time of moving between content-channels or VoD and/or nVoD services or (iv) multimedia channel data sent through the unicast system or multicast system.