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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2006
Yennun Huang, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Yih-farn Chen, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Rittwik Jana, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Amy Reibman, Chatham, NJ (US);
Bin Wei, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Zhen Xiao, White Plains, NY (US);
Michael Rabinovich, Solon, OH (US);
Yennun Huang, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Yih-Farn Chen, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Rittwik Jana, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Amy Reibman, Chatham, NJ (US);
Bin Wei, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Zhen Xiao, White Plains, NY (US);
Michael Rabinovich, Solon, OH (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, an IPTV server is configured to receive a request from an IPTV content storage device (CSD) to view a video stream. The IPTV server selects a set of peers for the IPTV CSD, and transmits the set of peers to the IPTV CSD. In the system, a capacity of a fiber to the node (FTTN) switch in a down linking direction is greater than or equal to a sum of a number of simultaneous viewers supported by the FTTN switch plus a number of viewers that receive video streams from peers in the same community.