Patent ID: 8483217
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for multicasting over a communications system having a communications path between a content provider and a plurality of users via a broadcast system, the communications path comprising a shared forward link over which bandwidth resources are shared during a multicast communication, the method comprising: receiving, at the broadcast system, content data for a content atom from a content source, the content data comprising payload data and descriptive data, the descriptive data including information characterizing the payload data; calculating a value of the content atom with respect to a broadcast channel as a function of user preference models and user dictionary models associated with at least some of the plurality of users according to user models maintained by the content provider, the user dictionary models maintained by the content provider, the user dictionary models representing user dictionaries disposed locally to respective users, and the user preference models representing user preferences for local filtering of content added to the user dictionaries; determining whether to add the content atom to the broadcast channel as a function of the calculated value of the content atom with respect to the broadcast channel; and when it is determined to add the content atom to the broadcast channel as a function of the calculated value of the content atom with respect to the broadcast channel, multicasting the content atom via the broadcast channel over the communications path to the plurality of users.