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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jianxiu Hao, Lexington, MA (US);
Jian Huang, Sudbury, MA (US);
Gaurav A. Tanna, Brighton, MA (US);
Ishan Awasthi, Wilmington, MA (US);
Okeno R. Palmer, Woburn, MA (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, a device, and a storage medium having instructions stored thereon to obtain usage data that indicates a usage of a downloading service and a streaming service of programs, in which the programs are provided to user devices via unicast delivery. The usage data is analyzed to determine whether a multicast offloading or a broadcast offloading is to be invoked on behalf of a program designated for unicast delivery. Additionally, a method, a device, and a storage medium obtain usage data, analyze the usage data, and generate a recommendation for an infrastructural change of a content delivery network based on the analysis.