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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2007
Xavier D. Riley, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Diem V. Nguyen, Anaheim, CA (US);
Xavier D. Riley, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Diem V. Nguyen, Anaheim, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication systemincludes a content repositorystoring a plurality of content files associated with the content distribution system. A transport processing systemcommunicating with the content distribution system, a terrestrial communication network, and a content delivery networkcommunicating with the content distribution systemand the terrestrial network. The content distribution system assigns a satellite category or a broadband category to each of the plurality of content files in response to the satellite category. The content distribution system communicates the content to the transport processing system. The transport processing system communicates the content through a satellite from the transport processing system to a user device. The content distribution system, in response to the broadband category, communicates the content to the content delivery network. The content delivery network communicates the content through a terrestrial communication network to the user device.