EXTENDED, HOME, AND MOBILE CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS

摘要

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide an extended content delivery network service in which user devices are configured as extended content delivery network devices that download and/or stream programs to other users of the extended content delivery network service. Additionally, a method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide an in-home media server device that stores programs in a same format as a format of the programs stored in a content delivery network, and provide an error correction service in which a portion of a program including an error, initially received via a multicast or broadcast transmission, is replaced with a corrected portion of the program via a unicast transmission. Still further, a method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide a mobile extended content delivery network device that downloads or streams programs to other users of the extended content delivery network service.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing, by a server device and to user devices, a program service that includes at least one of downloading or streaming of programs to the user devices, wherein the server device is a part of a content delivery network; receiving, by the server device and from one of the user devices, a request for a program, wherein the program is one of the programs; searching, by the server device, extended content delivery network information in response to the receiving, wherein the extended content delivery network information indicates customer premises devices having the functionality of the server device of the content delivery network, wherein the customer premises devices form an extended content delivery network and store one or more of the programs, in a same format as the programs stored in the content delivery network, and each customer premises device provides the program service for each program stored by the customer premises device; determining, by the server device, whether one of the customer premises devices stores the program based on the searching; and transmitting, by the server device, a response to the user device in response to determining that the one of the customer premises devices stores the program, wherein the response indicates that the one of the customer premises devices stores the program.