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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Marcel Barbulescu, Falls Church, VA (US);
Elan Joel Blutinger, Washington, DC (US);
Marcel Barbulescu, Falls Church, VA (US);
Elan Joel Blutinger, Washington, DC (US);
Alpine Audio Now, LLC, Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for calculating and reporting the cost-savings associated with communicating content on a single stream of data from a content server versus communicating that same content to clients where each client has an individual data stream connection, and the comparison of those costs over various data paths. These costs can be the actual bandwidth, the data throughput, or monetary in nature. They can also include other factors beyond communication rates, such as setup, maintenance, and switching costs.