Patent ID: 8958363
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of implementing profile-based bandwidth scheduling in a satellite network, the method comprising: receiving, at a scheduler, a bandwidth request from a user terminal, wherein the bandwidth request includes an associated uniform resource locator (URL); looking up, by a profiler system in a grant profile table, a grant profile for the associated URL, wherein the grant profile table comprises a plurality of URLs as well as an amount of bandwidth required and a time interval for which the amount of bandwidth is required for each URL of the plurality of URLs; determining that a grant profile for the associated URL is stored in the grant profile table by identifying the associated URL in the grant profile table; selecting, by the profiler system, the grant profile for the associated URL, wherein the grant profile includes bandwidth allocation requirements for the associated URL, the bandwidth allocation requirements comprising the amount of bandwidth required and the time interval for which the amount of bandwidth is required for the associated URL; and granting, at the scheduler, bandwidth to the user terminal for the time interval according to the bandwidth allocation requirements included in the grant profile for the associated URL; wherein the grant profile table further comprises: