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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2011
Brian Field, Evergreen, CO (US);
Jan Van Doorn, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Mark Torluemke, Centennial, CO (US);
Jim Hall, Centennial, CO (US);
Daniel Groustra, Littleton, CO (US);
John Leddy, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);
Brian Field, Evergreen, CO (US);
Jan Van Doorn, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Mark Torluemke, Centennial, CO (US);
Jim Hall, Centennial, CO (US);
Daniel Groustra, Littleton, CO (US);
John Leddy, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure relate to multicasting content throughout a distribution network. For example, a content server may generate content fragment packets and attribute packets, and transmit the content fragment packets and attribute packets via a multicast transmission to deliver content to one or more user devices. The multicast transmission may conform to a particular protocol suitable for multicasting content fragments.