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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2012
Horacio Andres Lagar-cavilla, Toronto, CA;
Kaustubh Joshi, Scotch Plain, NJ (US);
Alex Varshavsky, East Hanover, NJ (US);
Horacio Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Toronto, CA;
Kaustubh Joshi, Scotch Plain, NJ (US);
Alex Varshavsky, East Hanover, NJ (US);
AT&T Intelletual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can opportunistically leverage existing periods of inactivity or low activity for sending data at virtually no marginal cost. In particular, the architecture can receive data that is to be transmitted over a communications network. The data can be examined to determine whether or not the data is delay-tolerant. If so, then such data can be stored to a staging queue. The data can then be transmitted at a later time, particularly during a high-energy state facilitated by a different data transaction, but for which there are inactive or low-activity times.