Patent ID: 11936950
Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
sending, by a first computing device to a first caching device and a second caching device, a service query associated with a request for content received from a second computing device;
receiving, from the first caching device, a first service query response at a first time;
receiving, from the second caching device, a second service query response at a second time;
determining, based on the first time and the second time, a collision between the first service query response and the second service query response;
determining, based on the collision and the first service query response, that the first caching device satisfies one or more network parameters; and
instructing, based on the first caching device satisfying the one or more network parameters, the second computing device to send the request for content to the first caching device.