Interdigital Technology Corporation

Intel Corporation

Siden, Inc.

Signal Trust for Wireless Innovation

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Siemens Communications, Inc.

Omnipoint Corporation

Convida Wireless, LLC

Xircom, Inc.

Rnb Wireless LLC

Narayan Parappil Menon

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Boris Bogatin

Fatih M Ozluturk

Alan Gerald Carlton

Brian Gregory Kiernan

Shamim Akbar Rahman

Arty Chandra

Rajendra Singh

Ankur Verma

Ismail I Sola

Gary M Parsons

Izzet M Bilgic

Stephen E Terry

Yogendra C Shah

Robert A DiFazio

Debashish Purkayastha

Yi-Ju Chao

John L Norin

James D Nolan

John Mathisen McNally

Fred M Schreider

Matthew Bromberg

G R Konrad Roeder

Richard M Nelhams

Junsung Lim

Albert H Yuhan

Philip Douglas

Michael F Starsinic

Dale N Seed

Ulises Olvera-Hernandez

Peter Shaomin Wang

Quang Ly

Kamel M Shaheen

Hongkun Li

Zhuo Chen

Guang Lu

William Robert Flynn, Iv

Leonid L Kazakevich

Paul L Russell, Jr

Thomas S Gilley

Catherine M Livet

Maged Zaki

Donald Alfred Fleck

Robert L Monroe

Richard P Gorman

Murat I Bilgic

James A Nelson

Alan Carlton

Steve Howser

Prabhakar R Chiptrapu

Alan Charles Louis Briacon

Heinz Wilk

Francis A Gay

David Goehrig

Konrad G R Roeder

Christian Saide

Leonid Kazakevich

Shamin Akbar Rahman

Teresa Joanne Hunkeler

William Robert Iv Flynn

A system and method of operating a content distribution system includes generating a first request for first content by a first user device. Based on the first request for the first content, the first content is pre-positioned by communicating the first content to a downstream storage device closer to a second user device without communicating the first content to the first user device using the downstream storage device; and storing the first content in the downstream storage device as pre-positioned content. The method further includes communicating the first content to the second user device from the downstream storage device.

Method and system for pre-positioning and post positioning content in a content distribution system

A method and system of broadcasting includes determining an identified content for a broadcast to a broadcast group that may include a plurality of devices in a service area. The method also includes determining a priority for the identified content for the plurality of devices, determining radio conditions for each of the plurality of devices in the service area; and determining an available network capacity of a network for broadcasting in the service area; determining a spectral efficiency for the broadcast to achieve a performance target, said. The method also includes performance target based on the priority for the identified content, the radio conditions and the available network capacity. The method also includes broadcasting the identified content to the plurality of devices in the service area based on the spectral efficiency for the broadcast.

Method and system for delivering real-time content using broadcasting and unicasting

A method and system for operating a radio aware communication system includes receiving, by a content distribution system, a radio quality metric signal from a user device or a network; determining, by the content distribution system, a spectral efficiency for the user device based on the radio quality metric signal; receiving a capacity usage report from a first network; determining an available capacity of the first network based on the capacity usage report; determining a target available capacity utilization goal of the first network based on the available capacity; determining a target throughput based on the target available capacity utilization goal for communicating content to a user device and the spectral efficiency for the user device; and communicating the content to the user device using the target throughput through the first network.

System and method for network conditions aware content distribution

A method and system for controlling the use of dormant capacity for distributing data includes communicating data as part of a regular traffic load through a network having an overall network capacity, determining a dormant capacity of the network based on regular network traffic load, delivering content to a plurality of devices through the network, receiving the data at the plurality of devices, based on receiving the data, measuring an efficiency metric at each of the plurality of devices, communicating the efficiency metric of the devices to a service provider, receiving the efficiency metric at the service provider from the devices, receiving a resource usage report from the network, determining a target throughput for each of the plurality of devices based on the resource usage report and communicating second data to the plurality of devices from a content delivery service based on the target throughput using the dormant capacity.

Method and system for controlling the use of dormant capacity for distributing data

A system and method for operating includes providing a content for communication through a content distribution system having a broadcast mode and a unicast mode, determining a first number of user devices for receiving a communication of the content, determining a likelihood of consumption of the content by the first number of user devices, determining an available spectrum for communicating the content, determining a spectral efficiency for the unicast mode and the broadcast mode of the communication for each of the first number of user devices, selecting the broadcast mode or the unicast mode or both based on the first number of user devices, the likelihood of consumption of the content, the available spectrum and the spectral efficiency and communicating the content to the first number of user devices using the broadcast mode, the unicast mode or both based on selecting.

A system and method of operating a content distribution system includes determining a placement metric for a first object, communicating the first object to a local cloud associated with a user device or a network cloud based on the placement metric by control of a content distribution system, storing the first object in the local cloud or the network cloud and consuming the first object using the local cloud or the network cloud.

Method and system for distributing and storing content using local clouds and network clouds

A method and system for storing content includes determining candidate locations for pre-positioning a content at a content distribution system within a network. The method further includes communicating probe signals to the candidate locations, generating acknowledgement signals at candidate locations comprising storage availability data and compute data, selecting a real-time communication of the content or a pre-positioning communication of the content to form a selected communication based on dormant network capacity and at least one of a likelihood of consumption, the likelihood of consumption relative to a cost of storage, a cost of compute, and comparison of a cost of serving the content in real-time and a cost of serving the content using pre-positioning, selecting a selected content storage location for the content based on the storage availability data and compute data from the acknowledgment signals. The content is communicated to and stored at the selected content storage location.

Method and system for controlling the use of dormant capacity distributing data

A method of operating a communication system includes communicating a sounding signal to a plurality of devices through a first antenna array coupled to a basestation. The method further includes, in response to the sounding signal, communicating a response signal to the basestation from each of the plurality of devices, from the response signal determining device data comprising a device location, a signal strength of the sounding signal and phase information of the sounding signal, grouping the plurality of devices into a first group based on the device data, generating first transmit beamforming weights for the first group to shape the power output of the first beamforming weight vector to communicate a data signal to the first group and broadcasting the data signal to the first group through a wireless signal from the first antenna array using the first transmit beamforming weights and nulls.

Dynamic wireless broadcast system and method for operating the same

A system and method of operating an over-the-air broadcast television system having spectrum capacity that has a first portion for linear broadcasting content in real time and a second portion corresponding to a dormant capacity. A content distribution network system receives digital content from a content storage system. A dormant capacity estimator estimates dormant capacity of the spectrum capacity. An intermediate storage device communicates a registration request signal to the content distribution network system using a reverse link. The content distribution network system communicates a registration acknowledgement signal to the intermediate storage device. The content distribution network system communicates the digital content to the intermediate storage device through the over-the-air broadcast television network system. The intermediate storage device stories the digital content therein. The content distribution network system communicates the digital content to a user device through a local link after storing the digital content.

Method and system for providing non-real-time content distribution services

Dymnamic wireless broadcast system and method for operating the same

Methods and apparatus for communicating circuit switched voice data with a first cellular radio access network (RAN) and communicating voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) packets using session initiation protocol (SIP) with a second cellular RAN. The second cellular RAN does not support circuit switched voice communication.

Wireless communication system

Presented herein is a messaging system architecture that is referred to as an 'Open Message Bus' (OMB). The OMB is a messaging system infrastructure that facilitates connectivity and communication between services. The OMB backbone may offer infrastructure services that can be leveraged by all services that connect to the OMB.

Message bus service directory

Methods and apparatus for communicating with the Internet via a gateway are disclosed. The gateway may be a Radio Access Network (RAN) gateway. The gateway may communicate data with at least one user equipment (UE). The gateway may route the data via one or more interfaces. The data may be routed by bypassing a core network.

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Narayan Parappil Menon