Data retrieval in a two-way network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8938546-B2
Application number	US-201213671336-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2012
Priority date	Nov 15, 2006
Publication date	Jan 20, 2015
Grant date	Jan 20, 2015

Abstract

A system receives a first request for data associated with a data stream received over a first network from a remote source and then determines when the requested data will be available based on analyzing the data stream. The system communicates a second request for the requested data over a second network to the remote source when the requested data will not be available from the data stream within a threshold time and receives the requested data from the remote source over at least one from the list including the first network and the second network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a first request for data periodically contained in a data stream being received as a repeating set of modules by a device over a first network from a remote source, the requested data including one or more of the repeating set of modules and appearing with a carousel frequency within the data stream;
determining a number of modules in the repeating set of modules that are between a last module received and the one or more mod…

Assignees

• Opentv Inc

Inventors

• Orzen Matthew

Classifications

• H04H40/09

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N20/24

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H60/11

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H2201/37

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N20/26

  Electricity · mapped topic