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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2017
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Vaidyanathan Ramaswami, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Rittwik Jana, Parsippany, NJ (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method includes evaluating a bandwidth capacity of an uplink between a first customer premises equipment device and a network node of a multimedia distribution network. The method includes transmitting a portion of multimedia content from the first customer premises equipment device to a second customer premises equipment device. The method includes, responsive to determining that the bandwidth capacity of the uplink is greater than a threshold, determining a number of subsequent requestors that the first customer premises equipment device is capable of servicing, selecting a first set of helper virtual peers from a pool of available helper virtual peers based on the number of subsequent requestors, and transmitting the multimedia content from the first customer premises equipment device to the first set of helper virtual peers.