Media Transmission Grouping for Wireless Resource Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
In wireless communication networks, the limited radio frequency resources in cellular wireless coverage areas are often overwhelmed when transmitting media to multiple subscribers, leading to delayed or blocked communications due to the active-to-dormant time period of devices, which ties up air interface channels even when devices are not actively communicating.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that determine when a threshold number of subscribers are in a common zone and divide them into groups for sequential media transmission, with a waiting period between each group to manage resource consumption and prevent channel overload.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If media is transmitted to multiple subscribers simultaneously in a common wireless coverage area, then the service quality for media delivery is improved, but the air interface resources are exhausted causing communication delays or blocks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the group of subscribers in a common wireless coverage area into multiple subgroups. Instead of transmitting media to all subscribers simultaneously, the system divides them and transmits to each subgroup sequentially with a time interval between transmissions. This segmentation reduces the number of active subscribers at any given moment, thereby conserving air interface resources while still delivering media to all subscribers ultimately.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements periodic action by introducing time intervals between media transmissions to different subgroups of subscribers. Rather than continuous or simultaneous transmission to all subscribers, the system uses periodic bursts of transmission separated by idle periods that allow air interface resources to be released and reused. This periodic pattern balances media delivery efficiency with resource conservation.
2Ease of operation
If the active-to-dormant time period is maintained to enable further packet-data communications, then the device can quickly re-enter active state, but air interface resources remain tied up limiting availability for other devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing subscribers into subgroups and staggering their active periods. Not all subscribers remain in active state simultaneously, which reduces the total number of reserved air interface resources at any moment. Each subgroup experiences the active-to-dormant cycle, but the cycles are offset in time, allowing resources to be released and reused by other subgroups.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic action by implementing cyclical active and dormant periods for different subscriber subgroups. Each subgroup alternates between active and dormant states with time intervals between transitions. This periodic pattern allows air interface resources to be dynamically allocated to different subgroups over time, maximizing resource utilization while maintaining service capability.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is a method and system for managing transmission of media to a plurality of subscribers. As a general matter, a media management system determines that a more than a threshold number of subscribers scheduled to receive a given media transmission are located within a common zone (e.g., common wireless coverage area, common geographically-defined area, etc.), and the system responsively (i) divides the subscribers in the common zone into two or more groups and (ii) transmits the media to the groups sequentially. Preferably, the system waits a period of time between transmission to each group.