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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2012
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
James C. Bedingfield, Atlanta, GA (US);
Henry Kafka, Atlanta, GA (US);
Eric Small, Dallas, TX (US);
Daniel Baeza, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/33 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for conserving bandwidth. If a presence of a multimedia device is detected, then a stream of data is delivered to the multimedia device. If the presence of the multimedia device is not detected, then the stream of data is degraded to conserve bandwidth.