Patent ID: 8819303
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining a request for a transfer of content, the request associated with a user device; determining, by a computing device, whether a deferred transfer should be performed; receiving a completion time from the user device for a deferred transfer of the content; storing the request in a queue, wherein the request is associated with the completion time; traversing a linked list of nodes from a start node to an end node associated with each request in the queue to determine if each request can be processed within each request's completion time; determining whether to switch nodes for the transfer of the content to the requesting user device based on at least one of: processing the request from the queue to transfer the content at a start time, the content being transferred by the completion time; and adjusting, for a user associated with the user device, a charging parameter for the transfer due to the transfer being deferred.