Patent ID: 8434121

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a bandwidth configuration for equipment of a customer premises connected to a video head-end office in an Internet Protocol television network; storing, by the system, the bandwidth configuration in a memory of a server; receiving, by the system, a data file associated with the equipment of the customer premises connected to the video head-end office in the Internet Protocol television network, wherein the data file indicates that a set-top box device located at the customer premises has requested a video stream that would exceed a first number of video streams available to the equipment of the customer premises and that would exceed a first bandwidth currently available between the video head-end office and the equipment of the customer premises; storing, by the system, the data file in the memory of the server; formatting, by the system, the bandwidth configuration and the data file for use in the server; transmitting, by the system, the formatted bandwidth configuration to the server; transmitting, by the system, the formatted data file to the server; determining, by the system, a second number of video streams requested by the equipment of the customer premises when the data file was generated; and providing, by the system, a third number of video streams to the equipment of the customer premises from the video head-end office in the Internet Protocol television network based on a difference between the first number of video streams and the second number of video streams.