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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:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 04, 2019
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tyrone Nakahara, San Carlos, CA (US);

Stella Loh, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 61/2069 (2013.01); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system including a digital component request server that receives digital component requests for a supplemental digital component that will be presented in an additional multicast stream that is different to a multicast stream that is delivering content; a digital component distribution server that i) selects supplemental digital components to distribute over the additional multicast streams, the supplemental digital components being selected for one of the additional multicast streams being different to the supplemental digital component selected for each of the other additional multicast streams, and that ii) assigns one group of a plurality of groups of the multiple client devices to a respective one of the additional multicast streams; and an instruction generation server that generates instructions for the multiple client devices to tune to the respective additional multicast streams assigned to the group of multiple client devices that includes the different client device that submitted the request.


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