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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2012
Applicant:

Abbas Bagasra, Concord, MA (US);

Inventor:

Abbas Bagasra, Concord, MA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Method, device, and storage medium for receiving a request for a program from a user device; querying bandwidth state information; identifying whether the bandwidth state information indicates that the user device is allocated bandwidth, based on a previous request for another program, that is at least equal to a required bandwidth to deliver the program; requesting a bandwidth based on an identification that the bandwidth state information indicates that the user device is not allocated bandwidth that is at least equal to the required bandwidth; receiving an indication that the requested bandwidth is provisioned; and deliver the program to the user device.


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