Global Patent Index - EP 2756685 A1

EP 2756685 A1 20140723 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH

Title (en)

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND SYSTEM ZUR VERWALTUNG DER BANDBREITE

Title (fr)

PROCÉDÉ ET SYSTÈME DE GESTION DE LARGEUR DE BANDE

Publication

EP 2756685 A1 20140723 (EN)

Application

EP 11872347 A 20110912

Priority

CA 2011050549 W 20110912

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2013037032A1] A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item.

IPC 8 full level

H04H 20/42 (2008.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/43 (2011.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04H 20/423 (2013.01); H04N 21/2347 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/26216 (2013.01); H04N 21/64738 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2013037032 A1 20130321; CA 2847703 A1 20130321; CA 2847703 C 20161018; EP 2756685 A1 20140723; EP 2756685 A4 20141203

DOCDB simple family (application)

CA 2011050549 W 20110912; CA 2847703 A 20110912; EP 11872347 A 20110912