Dynamic Quality Enhancement Gateway Insertion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media quality enhancement technologies face challenges in scalability and cost-effectiveness, as they are often not adopted until a technology becomes ubiquitous, limiting their availability when users with differing media quality capabilities need them most.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic quality enhancement gateway system that detects conditions benefiting from media quality enhancement processing and routes sessions through a quality enhancement gateway capable of providing necessary processing, using signaling modules and detection mechanisms within a service node.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If media quality enhancement technology is located within user equipment or local media gateway, then media quality enhancement capability is available, but the capability is limited to what is known at manufacturing time and requires ongoing upgrades
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts media quality enhancement functionality from user equipment and local media gateways, concentrating it in a dedicated quality enhancement gateway within the network. This allows the enhancement capability to be updated independently of user equipment, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and upgrade requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The quality enhancement gateway serves multiple functions: it enhances media quality for sessions between endpoints with differing capabilities, supports multiple enhancement technologies, and can be dynamically inserted or removed from session paths. This universal gateway resolves the adaptability issue while centralizing upgrade management.
2Adaptability or versatility
If media quality enhancement technology is located within provider's existing network hardware, then media quality enhancement is available, but the cost is prohibitively expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a quality enhancement gateway as an intermediary component that bridges endpoints with differing media quality capabilities. This mediator approach allows enhancement functionality to be added without requiring expensive upgrades to all existing network hardware, as the gateway can be deployed independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the media quality enhancement function from the core network infrastructure, creating a separate, dedicated quality enhancement gateway. This segmentation allows the enhancement capability to be implemented as a standalone component rather than requiring expensive integration into existing network hardware throughout the provider's infrastructure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If media quality enhancement technology is adopted on large scale, then media quality enhancement is widely available, but adoption is delayed until after technology becomes ubiquitous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic insertion and removal of the quality enhancement gateway in session paths based on real-time detection of endpoint capabilities and session requirements. This dynamic approach allows early adoption of enhancement technology for specific sessions without requiring universal deployment, enabling timely availability when users have differing capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system includes detection mechanisms that monitor endpoint capabilities and session conditions, providing feedback that triggers dynamic gateway insertion when enhancement is needed. This feedback-driven approach ensures enhancement availability is activated precisely when and where needed, rather than waiting for universal adoption or requiring pre-deployment across all infrastructure.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for enhancing media quality by dynamically inserting a quality enhancement gateway are disclosed. According to one method, steps are performed at a service node. The method includes detecting a condition associated with a session between two endpoints that indicates that the session could benefit from media quality enhancement processing. The method also includes signaling the endpoints to route at least a portion of the session through a quality enhancement gateway (QEG) capable of providing the media quality enhancement processing for the session.