18896737. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPACITY EXCHANGE (Comcast Cable Communications, LLC)
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPACITY EXCHANGE
Organization Name
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
Inventor(s)
Neill Kipp of Centennial CO (US)
Martin Trang of Denver CO (US)
Jiang Xu of Highlands Ranch CO (US)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPACITY EXCHANGE
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18896737 titled 'METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPACITY EXCHANGE
Original Abstract Submitted
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for fault tolerant network storage and delivery of recorded content. Two or more network digital video recorders may each receive a plurality of requests to record, archive, and/or play back content items, such as television programs. Each network digital video recorder may receive capacity reports of statistics such as storage and/or bandwidth from one or more other network digital video recorders. At least one of the network digital video recorders may determine whether, based on a network capacity, to record, archive, and/or playback content items. The methods, systems, and apparatuses may accommodate equipment failures that lead to partitions between network digital video recorders.
