Patent ID: 8780907
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a data center device from a mobile content device, file content processed into file packets that are broadcast, via multicast delivery, to multiple user equipment by a broadcast multicast service control (BMSC) device associated with a broadcast multicast network; creating, by the data center device, file packets that include the file content, wherein the created file packets are identical to the broadcast packets; storing, by the data center device, the created file packets in a local storage associated with the device; receiving, by the data center device via a unicast network and not via the broadcast multicast network, a file repair request, related to missing file packets, from a particular user equipment of the multiple user equipment, identifying file packets of the broadcast file packets to be recovered; locating, by the data center device, particular created file packets from the local storage based on the file repair request, wherein the particular created file packets correspond to the identified file packets; and providing, by the data center device, the particular created file packets to the particular user equipment via unicast delivery, wherein the data center device, the mobile content device, and the BMSC device are not the same device.