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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:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Yang Guo, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);

Hao HU, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Yong Liu, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Inventors:

Yang Guo, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);

Hao Hu, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Yong Liu, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing, Issy les moulineaux, FR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/32 (2008.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/63 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04N 21/234327 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/632 (2013.01); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 67/1029 (2013.01); H04L 67/1061 (2013.01); H04L 67/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 67/1078 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus are described including receiving buffer maps of neighbor peers, measuring serving rates from the neighbor peers, measuring serving rates to the neighbor peers, requesting a unit of data from one of the neighbor peers responsive to information in the buffer maps of the neighbor peers at a rate responsive to the serving rate from the one of the neighbor peers, receiving incoming requests for units of data, sorting the incoming requests into a plurality of queues, selecting one of the incoming requests to serve responsive to the serving rates to the neighbor peers corresponding to the incoming request, updating the queues and selecting a new neighbor peer.


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