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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2017
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Mark Swan, Chester Springs, PA (US);
Weidong Mao, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Sree Kotay, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Mark Vickers, Belmont, CA (US);
Mohsin Roowalla, Richmond, CA (US);
Chris Kennedy, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A first device may request that multimedia content be made available on a second device. The first device may send the request to a server. The server mat notify the second device of the multimedia content. Based on how quickly the server receives a request, from the second device, for the content, the server mat determine how to ingest the multimedia content from a content source. The server mat ingest the multimedia content in full or in part prior to sending the multimedia content to the second device.