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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuyuki Sakoda, Tokyo, JP;

Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Chiba, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04L 12/14 (2013.01); H04L 12/1485 (2013.01); H04L 67/322 (2013.01); H04L 67/325 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information distribution system and method capable of averaging a traffic load over time and effectively utilizing communication facilities, wherein a terminal stationtransmits to a contents servera distribution request for desired information including information of time limit of distribution, and the contents serverreceives the distribution request, estimates a time band where the traffic load is small in the communications system in the period until the time limit of distribution, pages the terminal station again at that period of time, and, if the terminal station is in a state able to receive the information content, transmits the requested information content to the terminal stationthrough a network node.


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