Patent ID: 9241178
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for delivering Over the Top (“OTT”) television content to one or more receiver devices, comprising: broadcasting the OTT television content including Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (“DASH”) media segments to the one or more receiver devices; determining a network traffic level for the OTT television content including DASH media segments in a Designated Market Area (“DMA”); determining whether the network traffic level for the OTT television content including DASH media segments in the DMA exceeds a traffic level threshold; and switching from the broadcasting to evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (“eMBMS”) for delivery of the OTT television content including DASH media segments in response to determining that the network traffic level for the OTT television content including DASH media segments in the DMA exceeds the traffic level threshold.