| US 7,616,663 B1 | ||
| Method and apparatus for information dissemination | ||
| Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, Mass. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc., New York, N.Y. (US); and BBN Technologies Corp., New York, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 04, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/793,606. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04J 3/24 (2006.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—474 [370/468; 370/312; 370/316] | 29 Claims |
| 1. A method of transmitting information to a plurality of user devices in a network, the method comprising:
performing at a transmitting device:
transforming a sequence of M blocks of the information into N transformed blocks, where M and N are integers and N≧M, and
where each of the N transformed blocks comprises at least some of the information determining a current bandwidth for transmission
of the information; determining an allowed bandwidth for transmission of the information; and
transmitting each of the N transformed blocks in accordance with a transmit schedule where the transmitting includes delaying
transmission of one of the N transformed blocks when transmitting the one of the N transformed blocks would cause the current
bandwidth to exceed the allowed bandwidth;
performing at least one of the user devices:
receiving K distinct ones of the transformed blocks, where K is an integer and K<N; and
reconstructing the information from the K received transformed blocks.
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