Patent ID: 8554944

Claim:
A method, comprising: accessing, by one or more processors, a first content-producing rate at which a first content producer generates one or more first items of content, and a second content-producing rate at which a second content producer generates one or more second items of content; accessing, by the one or more processors, a content-consuming rate at which a content consumer consumes the one or more first or second items of content; selecting, by the one or more processors, a first delivery strategy to deliver the one or more first items of content to the content consumer using a comparison of a ratio between the first content-producing rate and the content-consuming rate relative to a threshold value, and a second delivery strategy to deliver the one or more second items of content to the content consumer using a comparison of a ratio between the second content-producing rate and the content-consuming rate relative to the threshold value; wherein the selecting of the second delivery strategy is performed independently from the selecting of the first delivery strategy.