US 2016/0080827 A1 · Optimized Delivery Techniques

Abstract

Systems and methods are described that relate to on-demand compression for electronic data, such as media content, through a communication pathway. The communication pathway may be a configured to multicast media content to a plurality of end-users in a service group. In certain embodiments, the service group may comprise a service group node having a quadrature amplitude modulation device. In one exemplary method, it may be determined whether the amount of media content being transmitted meets a first utilization threshold. The determination may be based on, at least in part, by measurements taken at one or more electronic devices located throughout a network or system. If the first bandwidth utilization threshold is not met, media content may be transmitted in a first format. If the first bandwidth utilization threshold is met, at least a portion of the media content may be transmitted in a first optimized delivery technique.

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Dependent claims

(canceled)

A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, data from a data source via a first network;
transmitting at least a portion of the data via a second network to an end device;
determining if a first quantity of data transmitted via the second network during a first time period meets a first threshold value associated with the second network;
and
when the first threshold value is not met, then continuing to transmit the data via the second network, and when the first threshold value is met, requesting that first optimized data be delivered from the data source and responsive to receiving the first optimized data, transmitting at least a portion of the first optimized data via the second network to the end device.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/854,483Filed 15 Sep 2015

Priority

14 Sep 2012

Published

17 Mar 2016

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04N 21/64738
Monitoring of network processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of network load: monitoring network characteristics, e.g. bandwidth, congestion level
H04L 12/66
Data switching networks: arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
H04L 43/0876
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: network utilisation, e.g. volume of…
H04L 43/16
Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks: threshold monitoring

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Abstract

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