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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Anshul Agrawal, Plano, TX (US);
Bill Krogfoss, Frisco, TX (US);
Lev Sofman, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An access node (e.g., DSLAM) is described herein which can limit bandwidth usage in a transport network by incorporating an enhanced rapid TV channel changing functionality/enhanced BTV server in which TV channels from a multicast TV stream are dynamically selected based on past TV channel clicking statistics and then stored therein so there is a good chance that it can respond to a TV channel change request from a STB.