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Delaycast queue prioritization

  • US 10,361,964 B2
  • Filed: 08/26/2015
  • Issued: 07/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A provider-side system for prioritizing communications of content objects over a shared communications link to subscriber-side systems, the provider-side system comprising:

  • a content handling subsystem configured to receive from a source external to the provider-side system and the subscriber-side systems a content object requested by a requesting one of the subscriber-side systems;

    a link scheduler subsystem configured to determine a scheduler score for the received content object according to a set of link-level scalars;

    a storage manager subsystem configured to determine a storage score for the received content object according to a set of storage-level scalars; and

    a communications subsystem configured to transmit the received content object with the storage score over the shared communications link to the requesting one of the subscriber-side systems after a delay period that corresponds to the scheduler score,wherein the scheduler score comprises a sum of weighted values of the link-level scalars.

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