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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 03, 2017
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Shu Shi, Secaucus, NJ (US);

Rittwik Jana, Montville, NJ (US);

Bo Yan, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/63 (2011.01); H04N 21/242 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/242 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/4302 (2013.01); H04N 21/44227 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system of a communication node routing data packets for a first streaming session between a viewer node of a plurality of viewer nodes and a content streaming server through the communication node without interrupting delivery of content data to the viewer node, establishing a second streaming session with the content streaming server to receive the content data, creating a first and second replacement connections by imitating a connections with the content streaming server and the viewer node, receiving a control packet over the second streaming session from the content streaming server, and splitting the first streaming session responsive to receiving the control packet. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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