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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2018
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
David Crawford Gibbon, Lincroft, NJ (US);
Lee Begeja, Gillette, NJ (US);
Zhu Liu, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Amy Ruth Reibman, Chatham, NJ (US);
Bernard S. Renger, New Providence, NJ (US);
Behzad Shahraray, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Eric Zavesky, Austin, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a system comprising a processor, first media content from a service provider network over a high resolution channel at a first resolution, determining whether a first resolution exceeds a resolution threshold for viewing the first media content, transmitting a notification to the service provider network that the first resolution exceeds the resolution threshold, receiving the first media content from the service provider network over the high resolution channel at a second resolution according to the notification, wherein a difference between the first resolution and the second resolution provides unused bandwidth on the high resolution channel, and receiving second media content from the service provider network over the unused bandwidth of the high resolution channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.