US 2008/0301746 A1 · PROGRAMMING CONTENT RECONSTRUCTION IN A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM

Programming content reconstruction in a content delivery system

OwnerPhilip R. Wiser, James Vincent Burmeister +8inventors

InventorsPhilip R. Wiser, James Vincent Burmeister, Marc H. Goldberg, Anderson Hoyt Jackson, Richard Johnson, Richard Blair Leavell, Yagyensh C. Pati, Garry M. Paxinos, Robert Denton Silfvast, Michael Youssefmir

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Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for programming content reconstruction in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, a method to repair programming content at a receiver controller includes receiving a programming content on the receiver controller from a broadcast transmission; identifying, if present, a portion of the programming content received on the receiver controller that is corrupted; determining in a broadband network, other servers and receiver controllers connected to the broadband network that have an uncorrupted version of the corrupted portion of the programming content; sending a request to one of the other servers and receiver controllers for the uncorrupted version of the corrupted portion of the programming content; and receiving the uncorrupted version of the corrupted portion of the programming content from the one of the other servers and receiver controllers. Other embodiments are also described.

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Dependent claims

A method to repair corrupted content, comprising:

receiving a programming content at a receiver controller from a broadcast transmission, the receiver controller is coupled to a broadband network;
detecting and identifying, if present, at least a portion of the received programming content that is corrupted;
determining which servers and other receiver controllers coupled to the broadband network have a corresponding uncorrupted programming content;
sending a request to at least one of the servers and other receiver controllers for at least a portion of the corresponding uncorrupted the programming content;
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receiving the at least a portion of the corresponding uncorrupted programming content from one of the servers and other receiver controllers.

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Application

12/131,009Filed 30 May 2008

Priority

30 May 2007

Published

4 Dec 2008

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Classification16 codes

H04N 7/17318
Transmission or handling of upstream communications: direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
H04N 21/2402
Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests: monitoring of the downstream path of…
H04N 21/25891
Management of end-user data: being end-user preferences
H04N 21/26216
The scheduling operation being performed under constraints: involving the channel capacity, e.g. network bandwidth

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