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US 12,192,118 B2Granted
Opportunistic delivery of cacheable content in a communications network
AssigneeViaSat, Inc.
InventorsMark D. Dankberg, Daniel M. Newman
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AssigneeViaSat, Inc.
InventorsMark D. Dankberg, Daniel M. Newman
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Systems and methods are described for using opportunistically delayed delivery of content to address sub-optimal bandwidth resource usage in network infrastructures that allow subscribers to share forward link resources. According to some embodiments, content is identified as delayable and assigned to a delaycast queue and/or service flow. For example, a server system of a satellite communications system identifies content that can be delayed to exploit future excess link capacity through multicasting and to exploit subscriber-side storage resources. Some implementations attempt to exploit any excess link resources at any time, while others exploit unused bandwidth only during certain times or when a certain threshold of resources is available. Various embodiments also provide content scoring and/or other prioritization techniques for optimizing exploitation of the delaycast queue.
A computer implemented method for providing content to a user system in a communications infrastructure, the method comprising:
A system for providing content to a user system in a communications infrastructure, the system comprising:
A system for providing content to a user system in a communications infrastructure, the system comprising:
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