Patent ID: 11870829
Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. An edge device comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more multicast interfaces including an Internet protocol (IP) multicast interface;
a point-to-point interface; and
a memory that stores instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, via the one or more multicast interfaces, a plurality of streams of hierarchical data from at least one data source into at least one buffer, each stream of hierarchical data comprising sequential data in which future data depends on previous data;
receiving a request from a user device to transmit one of the streams of hierarchical data to the user device;
in response to the request, providing, via the point-to-point interface, initial hierarchical data from the at least one buffer to the user device.