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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Alan L. Glasser, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Andrew G. Gauld, Middletown, NJ (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
John F. Lucas, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A content monitor includes a processor that at least receives requests from a plurality of clients for content, instructs each client to retry their respective request at a first later time if the request is received before a first time, counts the requests to determine if a number of the requests exceeds a threshold if the request is received before a second time, instructs each client to retry their respective request at a second later time if the counted number of requests does not exceed a first threshold, instructs each client to join a multicast group to receive the content when the number of requests exceeds the first threshold, and counts a number of late clients joining the multicast group after a first portion of the content has been sent to the multicast group.