Patent ID: 8495196

Claim:
A networked computing system for coordinating the distribution of burdensome media content using historical network usage patterns, the networked computing system comprising: a plurality of network resources that provide communications service, each network resource being associated with a communications location and a network capacity; a network resource controller; a first user equipment associated with a first network usage pattern including one or more prior communications locations from where the first user equipment had utilized the network resources; a second user equipment associated with a second network usage pattern including one or more prior communications locations from where the second user equipment had utilized the network resources; a data communications network facilitating data communications amongst all communicating devices of the networked computing system; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions, which when executed, performs a method comprising: evaluating a current reference to a first communications location of the first user equipment that is engaged in a media content transfer session at the first communications location, the first communications location being associated with a first network resource having a first network capacity; and determining whether to modify a schedule for the media content transfer session to the first user equipment based on a comparison of the current reference with the first network usage pattern of the first user equipment, and wherein the modification involves pausing the media content transfer session by halting a use of the first network resource to communicate with the first user equipment and then resuming communications with the first user equipment by using the second network resource.