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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2022
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Garey Hassler, Castle Pines, CO (US);
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved content delivery are described herein. During delivery of content to one or more user devices of a content distribution network (CDN), a content session may be created for each user device. During each content session, each user device may send one or more upstream communications, such as heartbeat signals and bitrate requests, to the CDN. A monitoring module of the CDN may aggregate the upstream communications into session data. The monitoring module may use the session data to determine an impairment associated with content delivery to the one or more user devices.