Systems and methods for multicasting to user devices
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsKevin Lisewski, Mansoor Ali Shah Mohammed
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Abstract
A method may include receiving content for multicasting, identifying user equipment (UE) devices to receive the content and identifying a geographical or service area associated with the identified UE devices. The method may also include determining a scheduled time for a multicast transmission of the content and transmitting, prior to the scheduled time, a message to the devices, wherein the message indicates the scheduled time. The method may further include initiating the multicast transmission of the content at the scheduled time.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by at least one device associated with providing multicast services, content for multicasting;
- determining, by the at least one device, a scheduled time for a multicast transmission of the content to a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices;
- identifying, by the at least one device, a time when at least some of the plurality of UE devices will be awake;
- transmitting, by the at least one device and at the identified time, a message to the plurality of UE devices, wherein the message indicates the scheduled time;
- and
- initiating, by the at least one device, the multicast transmission of the content at the scheduled time.
A system, comprising:
- at least one device configured to:
- receive content for multicasting,
- determine a scheduled time for a multicast transmission of the content to a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices,
- identify, by the at least one device, a time when at least some of the plurality of UE devices will be awake;
- transmit, at the identified time, a message to the plurality of UE devices, wherein the message indicates the scheduled time, and
- initiate the multicast transmission of the content at the scheduled time.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor included in a device, cause the at least one processor to:
- determine a scheduled time for a multicast transmission of content to a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices;
- identify a time when at least some of the plurality of devices will be awake;
- transmit, at the identified time, a message to the plurality of UE devices, wherein the message indicates the scheduled time;
- and
- initiate the multicast transmission of the content at the scheduled time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.