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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:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2023
Applicant:

Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

ADEIA GUIDES INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/2668 (2011.01); H04N 21/6408 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/26616 (2013.01); H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.05); H04L 65/612 (2022.05); H04N 21/26208 (2013.01); H04N 21/2668 (2013.01); H04N 21/6408 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04N 21/23424 (2013.01);
Abstract

The system and methods described aid content delivery by providing requested content using a hybrid delivery of unicast and multicast content. A content delivery system receives, from user equipment, a request for content and identifies multicast sources for the content. The content delivery system determines a recent multicast source from the multicast sources, the recent multicast source having begun more recently relative to the other sources. The content delivery system transmits, to the user equipment, an identity of the recent multicast source and provides a beginning portion of the content to the user equipment via a unicast stream.


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