Patent ID: 8769595
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A machine-readable storage device, comprising executable instructions, which, responsive to being executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising: identifying video content to be transmitted based on a transmission request that specifies a receiving device to which the video content is to be transmitted; determining whether the receiving device is communicatively coupled to a broadcast network but not to a broadband network according to an account profile associated with the receiving device; identifying the broadcast network as a transmit network for providing the video content to the receiving device responsive to the receiving device being communicatively coupled to the broadcast network but not to the broadband network; determining whether the receiving device is communicatively coupled to the broadband network but not the broadcast network according to the account profile; identifying the broadband network as the transmit network for providing the video content to the receiving device responsive to the receiving device being communicatively coupled to the broadband network but not the broadcast network; determining whether the receiving device is communicatively coupled to both the broadcast network and the broadband network according to the account profile; identifying characteristics of the video content and determining a number of requests from other receiving devices for the video content responsive to the receiving device being communicatively coupled to both the broadcast network and the broadband network; determining from the characteristics of the video content whether playback command features are present with the video content; identifying the transmit network as one of the broadcast network or the broadband network according to the playback command features that are present with the video content and according to the number of requests from the other receiving devices for the video content; and transmitting a notification of the transmit network and a time at which the video content is to be transmitted to a device that originated the transmission request.