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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2007
Randeep S. Bhatia, Somerset, NJ (US);
Girija J. Narlikar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Randeep S. Bhatia, Somerset, NJ (US);
Girija J. Narlikar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing content to user terminals. A method includes identifying a request for content from a user terminal, obtaining a network selection parameter for the content request, selecting, using the network selection parameter, a wireless network over which to propagate the requested content, and propagating the requested content toward the user terminal using the selected wireless network. The selected wireless network may be a unicast wireless network or a broadcast wireless network.