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Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2010
Applicants:

Aamer Charania, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Yuriy Bolyukh, Trophy Club, TX (US);

Inventors:

Aamer Charania, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Yuriy Bolyukh, Trophy Club, TX (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04L 41/509 (2013.01); H04L 41/5054 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/6175 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method including providing content to one or more customer premises equipment (CPEs); receiving a content request for content from a requesting CPE; determining whether the content is already being delivered to at least one of the one or more CPEs; selecting a primary CPE to satisfy the content request when it is determined that the content is already being delivered to the at least one of the one or more CPEs; providing a network address of the primary CPE to the requesting CPE; and providing the content from the primary CPE to the requesting CPE.


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