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US 10,708,386 B2Granted
Managing data delivery
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorJeffrey Elsloo
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Abstract
Methods and systems for managing data and/or operations on data such as content are disclosed. A method can comprise receiving data from a source, determining timing information associated with the source and automatically modifying a storage operation of data received from the source based upon the timing information.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a recipient device, a request for a storage operation for a content item from a content provider;
- determining for each content item of a plurality of content items from the content provider, a difference between a scheduled time for outputting the content item and an actual time the content item was output;
- determining, based on the difference between the scheduled time for outputting each content item of the plurality of content items and the actual time each content item of the plurality of content items was output, a time offset associated with the content provider;
- sending an instruction to a recipient device configured to cause the recipient device to modify, based on the time offset associated with the content provider, a time of the storage operation;
- receiving, from the recipient device, a request for a storage operation for another content item from the content provider;
- and
- sending an instruction to the recipient device configured to cause the recipient device to modify, based on the time offset, a time of a storage operation for the another content item.
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A method comprising:
- determining, for each content item of a plurality of content items from a content provider, based on a difference between a scheduled time for outputting the content item and an actual time the content item was output;
- determining, based on the difference between the scheduled time for outputting each content item of the plurality of content items, and the actual time each content item of the plurality of content items was output, a time offset associated with the content provider;
- receiving, from a recipient device, a request for a storage operation for a content item from the content provider;
- causing, based on the time offset, the recipient device to modify a time of the storage operation;
- determining that an actual time the content item was output matches the modified time of the storage operation;
- and
- updating, based on the match, the time offset.
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A method comprising:
- sending, to a recipient device, information associated with a plurality of content items from a content provider;
- determining for each content item of a plurality of content items from the content provider, a difference between a scheduled time for outputting the content item and an actual time the content item was output;
- determining, based on the difference between the scheduled time for outputting each content item of the plurality of content items and the actual time each content item of the plurality of content items was output, a time offset associated with the content provider;
- receiving, from a recipient device based on the information associated with the plurality of content items, a request for a storage operation for a content item of the plurality of content items;
- and
- causing, based on the time offset, the recipient device to modify a time of the storage operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.