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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2008
Frederic Bauchot, Saint-Jeannet, FR;
Francois-xavier Drouet, La Gaude, FR;
Gerard Marmigere, Drap, FR;
Frederic Bauchot, Saint-Jeannet, FR;
Francois-Xavier Drouet, La Gaude, FR;
Gerard Marmigere, Drap, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a retransmission manager for use in a digital content delivery system, wherein the delivery system comprises a plurality of user devices, a set of content providers for delivering digital content to the user devices in the form of bursts of content through a source unit. The retransmission manager is connected to the user devices to receive notifications therefrom, each notification received from a given user device identifying a burst received by the given user device which is candidate for retransmission. The retransmission manager selects a set of bursts among the bursts identified by the notifications based on the amount of available bandwidth at the source unit and on negotiation messages received from at least one of the plurality of content providers, the negotiation message being related to at least one burst identified in the notifications and including, for each burst, a negotiation parameter. The retransmission manager then sends a request for retransmission of the selected bursts to the source unit.