- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer content delivery
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Application No.: US15591005Application Date: 2017-05-09
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Publication No.: US10750216B1Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Ismail R. Haritaoglu , Oztan Harmanci , Cihat Goktug Gurler
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: H04N21/238
- IPC: H04N21/238 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04N21/442

Abstract:
A computer implemented method embodied in a computer program stored in non-transient memory and executed by a computer processor for providing peer to peer content delivery of a live video stream includes delaying delivery of a live stream to a second client to serve that client from a first client that has previously received the live stream. The computer implemented method may further include switching between bad content sources (first clients) to good content sources based on heuristics.
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