公开(公告)号：US20250008304A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18757306

申请日：2024-06-27

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Mark Hurst ,  Kyle Powell

IPC: H04W4/06

Abstract: Systems, devices, and automated processes optimize bandwidth utilization in wireless network systems such as satellite systems, 5G and other cellular networks, and wireless local area networks with multiple distribution nodes. Redundant unicasts of media streams are replaced by multicasts that can be transmitted by a subset of the available distribution nodes. This allows customer devices to receive redundant content over shared bandwidth that is available to the particular customer devices requiring access to the redundant content. Subsets of distribution nodes can be selected for transmitting multi-casts, thereby further reducing the amount of system bandwidth needed to provide high-quality media streams to multiple customer devices operating within the wireless network system.