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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:
Dec. 02, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2011
Applicants:

James Austin Britt, San Antonio, TX (US);

Tara Hines, McKinney, TX (US);

Adam Klein, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Inventors:

James Austin Britt, San Antonio, TX (US);

Tara Hines, McKinney, TX (US);

Adam Klein, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 5/782 (2006.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/782 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01); H04N 21/4583 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/44209 (2013.01);
Abstract

A disclosed example method to manage network bandwidth allocation in a media delivery environment involves detecting insufficient bandwidth available to deliver requested media to a media receiver and presenting user-selectable options via the media receiver to allocate bandwidth to deliver the requested media to the media receiver. The example method also involves receiving a first user selection of one of the user-selectable options and implementing the selected one of the user-selectable options specifying a second user selection identifying a particular media stream to be delivered at a media quality that is lower than a higher media quality previously selected for that particular media stream.


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