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US 10,433,022 B2Granted
Method and system for providing non-real-time content distribution services
AssigneeSiden, Inc. a Delaware C Corp
InventorsJohn L. Norin, Boris Bogatin, John S. Leibovitz, Kenneth Gould, Monish Kundra
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Abstract
A system and method for communicating content using remnant capacity includes an intermediate device having a content storage, a user device in communication with the intermediate device and a communication system provider communicating content to the intermediate device. The intermediate device stores the content the content storage. The user device requests content from the content storage. The intermediate device communicates content from the content storage to the user device in real time in response to requesting.
Claims49
A method comprising:
- communicating first data to cellular users for real time consumption by the cellular users using a first portion of an overall system capacity of a terrestrial cellular communication system during a first time, said overall system capacity comprising the first portion and remnant capacity separate from the first portion, wherein said real time consumption occurring at a same time as when a user requests to consume said first data;
- communicating second data through the terrestrial cellular communication system to a first device comprising an intermediate data storage device using the remnant capacity of the overall system capacity during the first time, said second data for non-real time consumption with a user application;
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- performing non-real time consumption of the second data with the user application by:
- after communicating second data, storing the second data in the intermediate data storage device of the first device;
- after storing the second data, requesting second data, by the user application, from the intermediate data storage device, at a second time that is different than the first time of real time consumption;
- communicating the second data from the intermediate data storage device of the first device to the user application after storing the second data;
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- in real time, receiving the second data from the intermediate storage device and consuming the second data at the user application.
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A system comprising:
- a first device comprising intermediate data storage device;
- a user application in communication with the intermediate data storage device;
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- a terrestrial cellular communication system communicating first data in real time to cellular users for real time consumption by the cellular users using a first portion of an overall system capacity during a first time, said overall system capacity comprising the first portion and remnant capacity separate from the first portion, wherein said real time consumption occurring at a same time as when a user requests to consume said first data, said terrestrial cellular communication system communicating second data to the first device using remnant capacity of the overall system capacity during the first time, said second data for non-real time consumption with the user application;
- said user application performing non-real time consumption of the second data by:
- said intermediate data storage device storing the second data in the intermediate data storage device of the first device after the terrestrial cellular communication system provide communicates the second data;
- said user application requesting second data from the intermediate data storage device after the second data is stored in the intermediate device and at a second time that is different than the first time of real time consumption;
- said intermediate data storage device communicating second data stored therein to the user application;
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- said user application receiving the second data from the intermediate device and consuming the second data in real time.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.