Patent ID: 9641876
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, by a service provider system comprising one or more computers, a plurality of data streams, wherein each data stream has a corresponding variable bit rate; determining, by the service provider system based upon an analysis of the corresponding variable bit rate: a subset of the plurality of data streams to be combined, wherein the subset of the data streams is determined based at least in part on a total available bandwidth for combining data streams, and a threshold bandwidth associated with at least one of the data streams, wherein determining the threshold bandwidth comprises: combining, by the service provider system, the subset of data streams; and transmitting, using a first network interface of the one or more computers, associated with the service provider system, the combined subset of data streams to a second network interface associated with each of one or more consumer devices.