REDISTRIBUTING BROADCASTED CONTENT

• US 20150180922A1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Draznin, Sagiv, Nelson, Matthew W., Kotecha, Lalit R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,781,180 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06

Abstract

A server device may receive content that was transmitted using a broadcast technique; track a quantity of user devices that have entered a particular area after the content has been received by the server device; determine, based on the tracking, that the quantity of user devices meets or exceeds a threshold quantity; and redistributing, by the server device and based on the determining, the content to one or more of the user devices that have entered the particular area after the content has been received by the server device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server device, content that was transmitted using a broadcast technique;

tracking, by the server device, a quantity of user devices that have entered a particular area after the content has been received by the server device;

determining, by the server device and based on the tracking, that the quantity of user devices meets or exceeds a threshold quantity; and

redistributing, by the server device and based on the determining, the content to one or more of the user devices that have entered the particular area after the content has been received by the server device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein redistributing the content includes broadcasting the content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcast technique, by which the content was transmitted, includes at least one of:

a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (“

MBMS”

) technique,

an evolved MBMS (“

eMBMS”

) technique, or

a Cell Broadcast Service (“

CBS”

) technique.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is received from a content broadcast server,

wherein redistributing the content includes:

outputting an instruction to the content broadcast server to rebroadcast the content.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein redistributing the content further includes:

providing the content to the content broadcast server, wherein the instruction causes the content broadcast server to rebroadcast the content provided by the server device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein redistributing the content includes:

redistributing the content in a time-shifted manner.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the server device is associated with a first wireless radio transceiver and a different second wireless radio transceiver,

wherein receiving the content includes receiving the content via the first wireless radio transceiver, and

wherein redistributing the content includes outputting the content the via the second wireless radio transceiver.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the received content corresponds to a live broadcast,

wherein redistributing the content includes redistributing the entirety of the live broadcast, after the live broadcast has been initially received by the server device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a particular user device, a request for the content; and

redistributing, based on the received request, the content to the particular user device.

10. A server device, comprising:

a non-transitory memory device storing a set of computer-executable instructions; and

a processor configured to execute the set of computer-executable instructions, wherein executing the set of computer-executable instructions causes the processor to;

receive content that was transmitted to the server device using a broadcast technique;

track a quantity of user devices that have entered a particular area after the content has been received by the server device;

determine, based on the tracking, that the quantity of user devices meets or exceeds a threshold quantity; and

redistributing, by the server device and based on the determining, the content to one or more of the user devices that have entered the particular area after the content has been received by the server device.

11. The server device of claim 10, wherein redistributing the content includes broadcasting the content.

12. The server device of claim 10, wherein the broadcast technique, by which the content was transmitted to the server device, includes at least one of:

a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (“

MBMS”

) technique,

an evolved MBMS (“

eMBMS”

) technique, or

a Cell Broadcast Service (“

CBS”

) technique.

13. The server device of claim 10, wherein the content is received from a content broadcast server,

wherein executing the computer-executable instructions, to redistribute the content, further causes the processor to:

output an instruction to the content broadcast server to rebroadcast the content.

14. The server device of claim 13, wherein executing the computer-executable instructions, to redistribute the content, further causes the processor to:

provide the content to the content broadcast server, wherein the instruction causes the content broadcast server to rebroadcast the content provided by the server device.

15. The server device of claim 10, wherein the server device is associated with a first wireless radio transceiver and a different second wireless radio transceiver,

wherein receiving the content includes receiving the content via the first wireless radio transceiver, and

wherein redistributing the content includes outputting the content the via the second wireless radio transceiver.

16. The server device of claim 10, wherein the received content corresponds to a live broadcast,

wherein executing the computer-executable instructions, to redistribute the content, further causes the processor to:

redistribute the entirety of the live broadcast, after the live broadcast has been initially received by the server device.

17. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a user device, first content that has been broadcasted by a first server device;

receiving, by the user device and after receiving the first content, second content that has been broadcasted by a second server device that is different from the first server device;

comparing, by the user device, the first content to the second content;

discarding, by the user device and based on the comparing, the second content when second content matches the first content; and

storing or presenting, by the user device, the second content when the second content does not match the first content.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

determining a first identifier associated with the first content; and

determining a second identifier associated with the second content,

wherein comparing the first content to the second content includes;

comparing the first identifier to the second identifier.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein discarding the second content includes:

forgoing providing the content to an application layer of the user device.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein receiving the first content includes:

receiving the first content via a cellular wireless network, and

wherein receiving the second content includes;

receiving the second content via a wireless local area network (“

WLAN”

).