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Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2002
Applicants:

Brian N. Sedlak, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Thomas Lemmons, Evergreen, CO (US);

Gary Rasmussen, Parker, CO (US);

Ian Zenoni, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Thomas Huber, Parker, CO (US);

Inventors:

Brian N. Sedlak, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Thomas Lemmons, Evergreen, CO (US);

Gary Rasmussen, Parker, CO (US);

Ian Zenoni, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Thomas Huber, Parker, CO (US);

Assignee:

Intellocity USA Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission bandwidth of a broadband transmission system such as a cable television, satellite system, or wireless information service. Requests for content items from users are employed to add or delete content items from a list. Content items in the list are ranked relative to the number of requests received or by rate of request. Package groups are created with most requested content items being broadcast more frequently than less requested content items. Transmit groups are produced from package groups and placed in a broadcast queue. A transmit process transmits groups retrieved from the queue.


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