Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, apparatus and system for delivering content
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Application No.: US15303560Application Date: 2015-03-23
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Publication No.: US10177928B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Yuichi Morioka
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Xsensus LLP
- Priority: EP14169734 20140523
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/056154 WO 20150323
- International Announcement: WO2015/176851 WO 20151126
- Main IPC: H04L12/18
- IPC: H04L12/18 ; H04W4/20 ; H04W88/06 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A content server delivers content items on demand to communications devices, and includes: a network interface configured to receive a content request from each of the communications devices and, in response to the received content requests, to transmit the content item to each of the communications devices following the arrival of a predetermined time using a network and one of a plurality of wireless access interfaces, each of the wireless access interfaces being configured to transmit and/or receive signals using a different radio access technology; and a control unit configured to cause the content transmitter to select one of the wireless access interfaces for transmitting the content item based on the number of content requests received prior to the arrival of the predetermined time; wherein the network interface is configured to transmit a signaling message to each of the communications devices signaling the selected wireless access interface prior to transmitting the content item.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170041158A1 METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING CONTENT Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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