Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Shaygan Kheradpir

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn

Ruchir Rodrigues

Xuefeng Yao

John F Gallagher

Aravind Perumandla

Fang Zhu

Sampath Nambakkam

Raghu Darapu

Santhosh Manjrekar

Sivaramakrishnan Shunmugha

Alexander Sakharov

Video streams may be adaptively switched between multicast and unicast transmission over a wireless interface of a wireless network. A device may track a quantity of videos that are being streamed over the wireless network. The device may determine, based on the tracked quantity of videos, whether to dedicate a radio channel, of at least one cell in the wireless network, to streaming a first of the videos. The device may transmit, in response to a request, from a mobile device, for the first video, an identification of the dedicated radio channel so that the mobile device can receive the first video as a streaming video over the dedicated radio channel.

Adaptive mobile multicasting for wireless networks

An approach is provided for content aggregation in support of virtual channels. Query information and authentication information of a user are received from a media application associated with a set-top box. A query request is generated for media content from a content provider using the query information, the authentication information, and an identifier of a service provider. Transmission of the query request is initiated to the content provider system. One or more search results are received in response to the query request. Transmission of the one or more search results is initiated to the media application.

Method and apparatus for providing content aggregation in support of virtual channels

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