Predictive delaycast feedback

摘要

Systems and methods are described for predictive delaycast feedback in relation to content object queuing and offer and request handling via communications systems. When a subscriber of communications and/or media services requests access to a content object, embodiments can determine where the content object can and/or should be placed in a delaycast queue. The queue can include multiple regions associated with different estimated delivery timeframes. The placement determination can involve determining an appropriate queue location for the requested content object (e.g., an appropriate queue region), and determining an associated promise time for the requested object.

主权项

1. A provider-side system in a communications infrastructure, the system comprising:
a communications processor that operates to receive a plurality of content requests from a plurality of requesting subscriber-side systems, each content request for delivery of a respective content object to a respective one of the requesting subscriber-side systems over the communications infrastructure; a queue having a plurality of previously requested content objects in a priority order arranged at least according to first and second queue regions, the first queue region scheduled according to presently available capacity of the communications infrastructure, and the second queue region scheduled according to predicted future capacity of the communication s infrastructure; and a queue processor that operates, for each content request, to:
determine whether the delay delivery of the respective content object to the respective requesting subscriber-side system over the communications infrastructure; andqueue the requested content object at a queue depth of the queue in response to determining whether to delay delivery, the queue depth being in the first queue region when it is determined not to delay delivery of the content object, and the queue depth being in the second queue region when it is determined to delay delivery of the content object.