PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "235000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments provide quality of service for media content delivery over capacity-constrained communications links to user devices by exploiting usage models and path awareness. For example, one or more uncongested beams can be identified as preceding one or more congested beams (e.g., by computing a congestion map) along a predicted transport path of a user device moving through a multi-beam satellite communications system. A prediction can be made aps to one or more future requests that are likely to be made by the user device for pre-positionable types of media content, and that are likely to be serviced by one of the subsequent congested beams. When such a request for pre-positionable media content is predicted, embodiments can schedule transmission of at least a portion of the media content over one or more of the preceding uncongested beams for storage local to the user device, thereby pre-positioning the content at the client prior to reaching the congested beam.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for managing streaming media service to a plurality of terminals via a multi-carrier communications system, the method comprising:\n computing a congestion map to indicate congestion conditions for a plurality of carriers of the multi-carrier communications system along a predicted transport path of a transport craft vehicle traveling through the multi-carrier communications system, the transport craft vehicle having a plurality of user devices disposed therein, wherein, in a first service timeframe during which the transport craft vehicle will be serviced by a first carrier of the plurality of carriers, the congestion map indicates the first carrier as uncongested with respect to servicing a first plurality of terminals comprising the transport craft vehicle, and in a second service timeframe during which the transport craft vehicle will be serviced by a second carrier of the plurality of carriers, the congestion map indicates that second carrier as congested with respect to servicing a second plurality of terminals comprising the transport craft vehicle, the second service timeframe being subsequent to the first service timeframe; identifying candidate media content portions predicted to be consumed by at least one of the second plurality of terminals during the second service timeframe; and scheduling transmission of at least some of the candidate media content portions to the at least one of the second plurality of terminals during the first service timeframe for local storage by the at least one of the second plurality of terminals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94186
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14948002', '14952649', '15806483', '14216003', '15440275']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2668798539662457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5400836900320632
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2942002375728274
- Mean Citation Score: 239.42709800000003
- Max Citation Score: 389.75125
- Similarity Product: 303.3145168173313

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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