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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);
Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);
Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for transmitting information to a group of recipient devices according to a transmission schedule is provided. A sequence of M blocks of information are transformed into N transformed blocks, where M and N are integers and N≧M. Each of the N transformed blocks are transmitted to a group of user devices in a network in accordance with a transmission schedule. At one of the user devices, at least some of the N transformed blocks are received. When K distinct transformed blocks have been received, where K is an integer and K<N, the information is reconstructed from the K transformed blocks. In some implementations, at least one recipient device reduces power, after receiving a recipient schedule including a transmission time of at least one desired content, until or near the transmission time of the at least one desired content.