US 2017/0257446 A1 · DELIVERING NOTIFICATION INFORMATION

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed for delivery of notification messaging in an IP network. A multicast gateway may receive manifest files and segments of programming content for retrieval by a client device. The multicast gateway may receive segments of a notification message and modify information in the manifest file to reference the notification message content. Upon retrieval of the manifest file by a client device, the client may access the notification message content referenced in the manifest file. The multicast gateway may replace references to programming content with references to notification message content having a corresponding content type.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a manifest file, wherein the manifest file comprises segment information for a plurality of segments of a first media item;
receiving a notification message;
and
modifying the manifest file by replacing the segment information for one of the plurality of segments of the first media item with segment information corresponding to at least a portion of the notification message.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/057,806Filed 1 Mar 2016

Published

7 Sep 2017

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Classification16 codes

H04L 67/55
Network services: push-based network services
H04H 20/59
Arrangements specially adapted for specific applications, e.g. for traffic information or for mobile receivers: for emergency or urgency
H04L 12/185
For broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast: with management of multicast group membership
H04L 12/1895
For broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast: for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates

Delivering notification information

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Abstract

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