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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);
Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for content delivery and managing and conserving network bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In accordance with one aspect of some embodiments, when the number content playback devices, e.g., IP set top boxes, iPADs, etc., in a region or service group receiving the same program content via individual unicast streams over a first network, e.g., cable network, exceeds a threshold number large, the IP capable playback devices are instructed to switch to receive the same programming content from a local device, e.g., a gateway device, via a home network. The local device receives the programming content via the cable network over a broadcast or SDV or VOD channel established by the cable service provider's headend/hubsite.