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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2012
Michael P. Valcourt, Davenport, FL (US);
Donald E. Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
James F. Di Mattia, Churchville, MD (US);
Leonard J. Andrews, Wayland, MA (US);
Michael P. Valcourt, Davenport, FL (US);
Donald E. Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
James F. Di Mattia, Churchville, MD (US);
Leonard J. Andrews, Wayland, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Method, device, and non-transitory storage medium to receive peak viewership parameters that indicate one or more program channels to be modeled; query a device that stores viewership data based on the peak viewership parameters; determine a peak viewership for the one or more program channels; query another device that stores network configuration data pertaining to a program delivery network; obtain channel path information pertaining to the one or more program channels; generate peak channel delivery data based on the channel path information and the peak viewership data; and simulate, based on the peak channel delivery data, resource utilization of the program delivery network stemming from a provisioning of the one or more program channels according to a delivery channel format that is different from another delivery channel format that was used to deliver the one or more program channels to subscribers.