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

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
sending, by the first computing device to the first caching device and at least one additional caching device, the service query;
receiving, by the first computing device from the first caching device, a first service query response at a first time, wherein the first service query response indicates the first caching device has sufficient resources to provide the content to the second computing device;
determining, by the first computing device, a collision between the first service query response and a second service query response;
determining, by the first computing device based on the collision and the first service query response, that the first caching device satisfies one or more network parameters; and
instructing, by the first computing device 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.