Patent ID: 9578362
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06N,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, at a server, channel change bias factors associated with a time slot; sending, from the server to a network device, a request for channel change server data, the request includes the time slot and data corresponding to the channel change bias factors; receiving, at the server, the channel change server data in response to the request, wherein the channel change server data identifies a set of times during the time slot and an estimated number of active channel change servers of a plurality of channel change servers for each time of the set of times; and before a particular time indicated in the set of times and in response to a number of active channel change servers being different than the estimated number of active channel change servers for the particular time, adjusting, via the server, the number of active channel change servers of the channel change servers to match the estimated number of active channel change servers.