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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2005
Xiaomei Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashok Bhaskar, Bangalore, IN;
Sangeeta Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce Thompson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Xiaomei Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashok Bhaskar, Bangalore, IN;
Sangeeta Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce Thompson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to a system for managing bandwidth usage in a content delivery system such as a Video on Demand (VOD) network. Specifically, an Edge Resource Manager (ERM) makes use of a number of policies to optimally select a transmission device such as a Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) device. The policies aid in providing efficient use of the transmission devices particularly when a number of different transmission rates for different media are employed.