1. A method for selecting an initial bandwidth setting, the method comprising:
determining a client is initiating a communication session to receive streaming content from a content source, wherein the streaming content is stored as a plurality of content segments and a manifest describing the plurality of content segments and their order, each of the plurality of content segments being available in a plurality of bit rate encodings;
determining an identifier for the client;
determining network conditions for the client;
selecting a bandwidth setting for the client utilizing the network conditions and a previous bandwidth setting saved in a memory;
initiating the communication session for the client utilizing the bandwidth setting: wherein initiating the communication session for the client comprises streaming a first content segment having a first bit rate encoding based on the bandwidth setting;
and updating the bandwidth setting to change a bit rate of the streaming content, based on buffer utilization at one or more devices in a network connection between the client and the content source, wherein changing a bit rate of the streaming content comprises streaming a second content segment of the content, the second content segment having a different bit rate encoding than the first content segment;
storing at least one of the updated bandwidth setting, the buffer utilization, and a bandwidth history in memory.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the client is a video streaming application.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network conditions include a type of data connection being utilized by the client.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network conditions include determining a number of clients sharing a network connection with bandwidth limitations.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication session is initiation of a video session.
6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: updating the memory with a bandwidth setting in response to determining the client is functional at the bandwidth setting.
7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: determining an identifier associated with the client to determine the previous bandwidth setting associated with the client.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifier is a MAC address associated with the client.
9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: storing the bandwidth setting at a predefined interval.
10. A server for selecting a bandwidth setting, comprising:
a processor for executing a set of instructions; and a memory for storing the set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions are configured to:
determine a client is initiating a communication session to receive streaming content from a content source, wherein the streaming content is stored as a plurality of content segments and a manifest describing the plurality of content segments and their order, each of the plurality of content segments being available in a plurality of bit rate encodings;
determine an identifier associated with the client;
determine network conditions for the client;
select a bandwidth setting for the client utilizing the network conditions and the identifier associated with the client, wherein the identifier is associated with a previous bandwidth setting saved in a memory;
initiate the communication session for the client utilizing the bandwidth setting wherein initiating the communication session for the client comprises streaming a first content segment having a first bit rate encoding based on the bandwidth setting; and
update the bandwidth setting to change a bit rate of the streaming content, based on buffer utilization at one or more devices in a network connection between the client and the content source, wherein changing a bit rate of the streaming content comprises streaming a second content segment of the content, the second content segment having a different bit rate encoding than the first content segment;
store at least one of the updated bandwidth setting, the buffer utilization, and a bandwidth history in memory.
11. The server according to claim 10, wherein the client is a video streaming application, and wherein the network conditions include a type of data connection being utilized by the client.
12. The server according to claim 10, wherein the network conditions include determining a number of clients sharing a network connection with bandwidth limitations.
13. The server according to claim 10, wherein the memory is a database accessed by the server to determine the previous bandwidth setting.
14. The server according to claim 10, wherein the bandwidth setting is selected for each new communication session, and wherein the communication session includes at least video streaming.
15. The server according to claim 10, wherein the server is the content source.
16. A system for retrieving a bandwidth setting, the system comprising:
a server configured to determine a client is initiating a communication session to receive streaming content from a content source, determine an identifier associated with the client, determine network conditions for the client, select a bandwidth setting for the client utilizing the identifier associated with the client, the network conditions for the client, and a previous bandwidth setting utilized by the client, initiate the communication session for the client utilizing the bandwidth setting, and update the bandwidth setting to change a bit rate of the streaming content based on buffer utilization at one or more devices in a network connection between the client and the content source; and
a database in communication with the server, the database is operable to store the updated bandwidth setting utilized by the client;
wherein the streaming content is stored as a plurality of content segments and a manifest describing the plurality of content segments and their order, each of the plurality of content segments being available in a plurality of bit rate encodings;
wherein initiating the communication session for the client comprises streaming a first content segment having a first bit rate encoding based on the bandwidth setting;
and wherein changing a bit rate of the streaming content comprises streaming a second content segment of the content, the second content segment having a different bit rate encoding than the first content segment.
17. The system according to claim 16, wherein a plurality of bandwidth settings are stored in the database, and wherein the plurality of bandwidth settings are associated with each of a plurality of clients utilizing each of a plurality of identifiers for initiating communications sessions.
18. The system according to claim 16, wherein the identifier is a MAC address.
19. The system according to claim 16, wherein the network conditions include at least a number of clients sharing a network connection with bandwidth limitations and a type of connection utilized by the client.
20. The server according to claim 16, wherein the server is the content source.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for expression evaluation of content instances over multiple different data models, the method comprising:
loading a schema for a content instance in memory of a computer;
evaluating an expression against the content instance; and,
responding to a failure during the evaluation of the expression against the content instance to resolve a reference to an element specified by the expression, by identifying in the schema an alias reference for the element and completing the evaluation using the alias reference in lieu of the specified reference.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the schema is an extensible markup language (XML) schema.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the expression is an XML Path (XPATH) expression.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the element models data according to the service data object (SDO) data model.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content instance is a message, the method further comprising routing the message subsequent to completing the evaluation of the expression against the message.
6.-14. (canceled)