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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventors:
Richard Fliam, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
David Arbuckle, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 67/63 (2022.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04L 65/80 (2022.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.01); H04L 67/55 (2022.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.01); H04L 41/0896 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/63 (2022.05); H04L 41/0896 (2013.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.05); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/55 (2022.05); H04L 67/568 (2022.05);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing delivery of content fragments to a device in response to a bandwidth determination. In one implementation of the disclosure, when a content player or device requests a content fragments, a local cache may determine a bandwidth or data rate related to transmission of a content fragment from a source to the cache, and send the fragment to the player at a rate corresponding to the determined bandwidth or data rate.