Tuning efficiency and delivery of content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9467720-B2
Application number	US-201514812573-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2015
Priority date	Aug 8, 2013
Publication date	Oct 11, 2016
Grant date	Oct 11, 2016

Abstract

In accordance with one configuration, in response to receiving a request from a client device, a server resource tunes to a corresponding channel to retrieve content conveyed on the corresponding channel. While tuning, the server resource obtains a network address of the server resource from which content in the corresponding channel will be available for retrieval by the client device subsequent to the server resource successfully tuning to the corresponding channel and buffering a portion of the content. The server resource forwards the network address to the client device for subsequent retrieval of the content.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
via computer processor hardware at a server resource, performing operations of:
in response to receiving a request from a client device, tuning to a corresponding channel to retrieve content conveyed on the corresponding channel;
obtaining a network address of the server resource from which content in the corresponding channel will be available for retrieval by the client device subsequent to the server resource successfully tuning to the corre…

Assignees

• Time Warner Cable Entpr Llc

Inventors

• Reed Thomas H
• Taylor Robert D

Classifications

• H04N21/4384

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4345

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/2385 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/2265

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/2143

  Electricity · mapped topic