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Seamlessly switching among unicast, multicast, and broadcast mobile media content

  • US 10,031,969 B2
  • Filed: 11/25/2014
  • Issued: 07/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing, by a processing system comprising a processor, access to network-delivered broadcast content to a mobile device;

    determining, by the processing system, unicast content that comprises different content than the network-delivered broadcast content based, at least in part, on an attribute of the network-delivered broadcast content, resulting in determined unicast content;

    obtaining, by the processing system, first metadata associated with the network-delivered broadcast content;

    obtaining, by the processing system, second metadata associated with the unicast content; and

    providing, by the processing system, access to the determined unicast content to the mobile device, wherein an application on the mobile device enables switching at the mobile device between the determined unicast content and the network-delivered broadcast content according to the first metadata and the second metadata.

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