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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2004
Applicants:
Howard Singer, Morganville, NJ (US);
Laird Popkin, New York, NY (US);
Yariv Sadan, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Howard Singer, Morganville, NJ (US);
Laird Popkin, New York, NY (US);
Yariv Sadan, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for distributing a media content file wherein a file is received in a node. The received file is then shared with a recognized neighbor node. Once the file is provided by a distributor node to a neighbor node, the distributor node claims an incentive for sharing the file with the neighbor node.