Systems and methods of enhanced adaptability in real-time communications based on events and metrics from network interfaces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12323830-B2
Application number	US-202217805248-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2022
Priority date	Jun 4, 2021
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

A method and apparatus of a device that manages a video telephony call is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a network event from a network service of a device. The device further determines that the network event that is due to a local disruption of a network component of the device. In addition, and in response to the determination, the device restricts a local dynamic control of the video telephony call.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method, comprising:
managing a video telephony call using a local dynamic control that responds to indication(s) of network performance;
receiving a network event from a network service of a device;
determining that the network event is due to a disruption of a local network component of the device; and
in response to the determination, restricting the local dynamic control of the video telephony call by reducing responsiveness of the local dynamic control.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the network component is a Wi-Fi network component.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the event is a Wi-Fi off-channel start event.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving network statistics from the network service.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the network statistics includes at least one of throughput, delay, queue size, coex mode, frequency band, and quality score.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the local dynamic control is rate control management and the restriction is a freeze of the rate control management.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the local dynamic control is redundancy management and the restriction is a freeze of the redundancy management.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the local dynamic control is link coex management and the restriction is a limit of a rate control.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the local dynamic control is jitter buffer management and the restriction sets the jitter buffer into a spike mode.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that network event is due to a local resumption of the network component of the device; and
in response to the resumption determination, removing the restriction of the local dynamic control of the video telephony call.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the network event is a Wi-Fi off-channel stop.

12. A method, comprising:
managing a video telephony call using a local dynamic control that responds to indication(s) of network performance;
receiving a network event from a network service of a device;
determining that the network event is due to a disruption of a local network component of the device; and
in response to the determination, restricting the local dynamic control of the video telephony call by reducing responsiveness of the local dynamic control.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the network component is a Wi-Fi network component.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the event is a Wi-Fi off-channel start event.

15. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving network statistics from the network service.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the network statistics includes at least one of throughput, delay, queue size, coex mode, frequency band, and quality score.

17. The method of claim 12 , wherein the local dynamic control is rate control management and the restriction is a freeze of the rate control management.

18. The method of claim 12 , wherein the local dynamic control is redundancy management and the restriction is a freeze of the redundancy management.

19. The method of claim 12 , wherein the local dynamic control is link coex management and the restriction is a limit of a rate control.

20. The method of claim 12 , wherein the local dynamic control is jitter buffer management and the restriction sets the jitter buffer into a spike mode.

21. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method, comprising:
managing a video telephony call using a local dynamic control that responds to indication(s) of network performance;
receiving an indication of a network event from a network service of a device;
determining that the network event is predetermined type of network disruption; and
in response to the determination, restricting the local dynamic control of the video telephony call by reducing responsiveness of the local dynamic control.

22. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the network service is a Wi-Fi network service.

23. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the network event is a Wi-Fi off-channel start event.

24. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , further comprising:
receiving network statistics from the network service.

25. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 24 , wherein the network statistics includes at least one of throughput, delay, queue size, coex mode, frequency band, and quality score.

26. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the local dynamic control is rate control management and the restriction is a freeze of the rate control management.

27. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the local dynamic control is redundancy management and the restriction is a freeze of the redundancy management.

28. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the local dynamic control is link coex management and the restriction is a limit of a rate control.

29. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the local dynamic control is jitter buffer management and the restriction sets the jitter buffer into a spike mode.

30. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 21 , further comprising:
determining that an end of the network event has occurred due to a local resumption of the network component of the device; and
in response to the resumption determination, removing the restriction of the local dynamic control of the video telephony call.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Gonzales Erik Vladimir Ortega
• Santhanam Karthick
• Verger Luciano M
• Garrido Christopher M
• Jin Ming
• Ramesh Ashwin
• Shiang Hsien-Po
• Dave Brajesh K
• Yu Yang
• Masputra Cahya
• Vamaraju Santosh
• Biderman David L
• Rajeevalochana Suryaprakash Bangalore
• Chandok Gurtej Singh G

Classifications

• H04L65/403

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04W84/18

  Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks · CPC title

• H04L65/1046

  Call controllers; Call servers · CPC title

• H04L65/80

  Responding to QoS · CPC title

• H04N7/148

  Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN · CPC title