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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Marcus Kellerman, San Diego, CA (US);
Xuemin Chen, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (US);
Vladimir Silyaev, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
David Erickson, San Clemente, CA (US);
Marcus Kellerman, San Diego, CA (US);
Xuemin Chen, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (US);
Vladimir Silyaev, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
David Erickson, San Clemente, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A server may be used to handle at least some of processing of content retrieved via and/or derived from Internet access operations of a plurality of set-top boxes (STBs). Resource allocation and/or utilization, and/or tasks or applications performed in the server during the processing may be configured based on control data, which may be determined by the server and which may comprise capabilities of links between the server and each of the plurality of STBs, requirements of the tasks, characteristics of the content and/or the Internet access operations, user preferences and/or interactions, and/or content provider preferences. The server may dynamically reconfigure the tasks and/or resources based on monitoring of its operations and/or changes of the control data. Configuring tasks and/or resources may comprise time slicing access to resources that are commonly used during concurrent servicing of at least some of the plurality of STBs by the support server.