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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2011
David Applegate, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Aaron Archer, South Orange, NJ (US);
Kyung-wook Hwang, New York, NY (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Seungjoon Lee, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kadangode K Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Deborah F Swayne, Summit, NJ (US);
David Applegate, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Aaron Archer, South Orange, NJ (US);
Kyung-Wook Hwang, New York, NY (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Seungjoon Lee, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kadangode K Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Deborah F Swayne, Summit, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving demand information for a first segment of a media content item and receiving demand information for a second segment of the media content item. The method includes assigning the first segment to a first set of distribution nodes of a media content distribution system based at least partially on the demand information for the first segment and based at least partially on a first cost function and assigning the second segment to a second set of distribution nodes of the media content distribution system based at least partially on the demand information for the second segment and based at least partially on a second cost function. The media content distribution system includes a plurality of distribution nodes and each distribution node is configured to provide media content items to at least some of a plurality of endpoints.