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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2011
Jack Jianxiu Hao, Lexington, MA (US);
Yuhui Qian, Lexington, MA (US);
Jian Huang, Sudbury, MA (US);
Gaurav Mehta, Brookline, MA (US);
Jack Jianxiu Hao, Lexington, MA (US);
Yuhui Qian, Lexington, MA (US);
Jian Huang, Sudbury, MA (US);
Gaurav Mehta, Brookline, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage mediums provide a program handoff between user devices. The program handoff permits a user to select a user device with which to resume a playing of the program. The program handoff also permits a user to set a reminder for playing the program. Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage mediums provide for an application layer-based network offloading of programs. A program is buffered based on a network offloading time and the program is played from a buffer during an execution of a network offload. Network offload prediction is used to minimize network offload time and buffering.