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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
May. 25, 2011
Ali C. Begen, London, CA;
William C. Ver Steeg, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Toerless Eckert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ali C. Begen, London, CA;
William C. Ver Steeg, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Toerless Eckert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method that receives at a client device a unicast content stream; receives from a network an indication of a future time corresponding to when to send a join message to acquire a multicast content stream; accesses historical information about transitions between unicast and multicast content streams; and sends a join message for the multicast content stream at a time corresponding to the indicated future time subject to a time offset determined by the client device, the time offset based on the historical information.