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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2020
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Tom Gonder, Broomfield, CO (US);
William L. Helms, Longmont, CO (US);
Kenneth Gould, Reston, VA (US);
David Chen, Jamison, PA (US);
John Chen, Ashburn, VA (US);
Jian Yu, Ashburn, VA (US);
Niem Dang, Sterling, VA (US);
Vipul Patel, Great Falls, VA (US);
TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for providing delivery of content to client devices of a network via both multicast and unicast mechanisms. In one embodiment, a system for use in a managed content delivery network is described to bridge multicast to unicast, so that the total network bandwidth consumption is significantly lower than a corresponding unicast-only delivery solution, yet which still provides improved quality of service and user viewing experience as compared to a multicast-only delivery solution. In addition, various exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are readily adapted for real-time multicast to unicast streaming of audio and data to, among other things, minimize network bandwidth usage, while maintaining the guaranteed delivery of unicast streams with little or no modification to the existing client device logic.