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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2015
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);
Thomas H. Reed, Superior, CO (US);
Robert D. Taylor, Boulder, CO (US);
Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one configuration, in response to receiving a request from a client device, a server resource tunes to a corresponding channel to retrieve content conveyed on the corresponding channel. While tuning, the server resource obtains a network address of the server resource from which content in the corresponding channel will be available for retrieval by the client device subsequent to the server resource successfully tuning to the corresponding channel and buffering a portion of the content. The server resource forwards the network address to the client device for subsequent retrieval of the content.