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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2012
Applicant:
William Turner Hanks, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Inventor:
William Turner Hanks, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Technology, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/472 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/47202 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various methods, systems, and apparatuses can be used to consolidate unicast video streams into multicast video streams. In some implementations, a skewing window associated with multiple unicast video streams for a video can be identified using a maximum skewing rate and a program duration, and a multicast stream for the video can be generated based on the skewing window. The unicast video streams can then be skewed and merged with the multicast stream.