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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2011
Lisa Etsuko Kamitakahara, Toronto, CA;
Antonio Colantonio, Mississauga, CA;
Sandip Singh, Brampton, CA;
Nasir Mahmood Ansari, Mississauga, CA;
Clinton Alexander Pierce Sheridan, Barrie, CA;
Lisa Etsuko Kamitakahara, Toronto, CA;
Antonio Colantonio, Mississauga, CA;
Sandip Singh, Brampton, CA;
Nasir Mahmood Ansari, Mississauga, CA;
Clinton Alexander Pierce Sheridan, Barrie, CA;
Rogers Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item.