System and method of deferring multimedia content delivery
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsMark Yampanis, Adam Klein, Austin Britt, Stephen Rys
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Abstract
Systems and methods of deferred multimedia content delivery are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a first customer premises equipment (CPE) device to receive multimedia content. The method also includes selectively recording the multimedia content at a server based on a comparison of a measured bandwidth associated with the first CPE device and a bandwidth threshold. The method may also include delivering the multimedia content to the first CPE device from a network when measured bandwidth is available.
Claims27
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a server, a request from a first customer premises equipment device to receive multimedia content;
- determining whether the request was received prior to a scheduled end of the multimedia content;
- determining a measured bandwidth of a first connection between a network and the first customer premises equipment device;
- comparing the measured bandwidth to a bandwidth threshold at the server;
- when the request was received prior to the scheduled end of the multimedia content and when the measured bandwidth does not satisfy the bandwidth threshold, selectively recording the multimedia content at the server.
A server comprising:
- a memory;
- an interface to receive data from multiple customer premises equipment devices;
- and
- a processor, the memory and the interface accessible to the processor, the memory including instructions to cause the processor to:
- receive a request at the server via the interface to provide multimedia content to a first customer premises equipment device of the multiple customer premises equipment devices;
- determine whether the request was received prior to a scheduled end of the multimedia content;
- determine a measured bandwidth of a first connection between a network and the first customer premises equipment device and a bandwidth threshold;
- compare the measured bandwidth to the bandwidth threshold at the server;
- and
- when the request is received prior to the scheduled end of the multimedia content and when the measured bandwidth does not satisfy the bandwidth threshold, selectively record multimedia content at a storage device coupled to the processor of the server.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a request to receive multimedia content at a server from a customer premises equipment device;
- determine whether the request to receive the multimedia content was received prior to a scheduled end of the multimedia content;
- determine a measured bandwidth of a first connection between a network and the customer premises equipment device;
- compare the measured bandwidth to a bandwidth threshold at the server;
- and
- when the request is received prior to the scheduled end of the multimedia content and when the measured bandwidth does not satisfy the bandwidth threshold, record the multimedia content at the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.