METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

• US 20100046555A1
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BBNT Solutions LLC (Rtx Corporation), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BBN Technologies Corporation, Verizon Corporate Services Group Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: ELLIOTT, Brig Barnum
• Granted Patent: US 8,126,016 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/474
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/42 Arrangements for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/06 Arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system and method for transmitting information to a group of recipient devices [106, 108, 110] according to a transmission schedule [500] is provided. A sequence of M blocks of information are transformed [406] into N transformed blocks, where M and N are integers and N≧M. Each of the N transformed blocks are transmitted to a group of user devices [106, 108, 110] in a network in accordance with a transmission schedule [500]. At one of the user devices [106, 108, 110], at least some of the N transformed blocks are received. When K distinct transformed blocks have been received, where K is an integer and K<N, the information is reconstructed [708] from the K transformed blocks. In some implementations, at least one recipient device [106, 108, 110] reduces power, after receiving a recipient schedule [600] including a transmission time [602] of at least one desired content, until or near the transmission time [602] of the at least one desired content.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting information to a plurality of user devices in a network, the method comprising:

performing at a transmitting device;

transforming a sequence of M blocks of the information into N transformed blocks, where M and N are integers and N≧

M; and

transmitting each of the N transformed blocks in accordance with a transmit schedule;

performing at least one of the user devices;

receiving at least some of the N transformed blocks; and

reconstructing the information from the received transformed blocks, when K distinct ones of the transformed blocks have been received, where K is an integer and K<

N.

2-57. -57. (canceled)