Patent ID: 11936710
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 31:
32. The system of claim 24, wherein the control circuitry is further configured to:
determine a sidelink connection quality level between the first device and a third device of the plurality of devices;
determine, based on the connection metrics, a network connection quality level between the third device and the content source;
in response to determining that the sidelink connection quality level is higher than the network connection quality level between the third device and the content source, deliver, using the transceiver circuitry, the first segment to the third device via the sidelink connection; and
in response to determining that the network connection quality level between the third device and the content source is higher than the sidelink connection quality level:
refrain from retrieving, using the transceiver circuitry, from the content source, the first segment of the media;
retrieve, using the transceiver circuitry, from the third device, via the sidelink connection, the first segment of the media;
wherein the third device retrieves the first segment from the content source and stores the first segment in a cache of the third device.