Multicasting video

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PATENT NO 6691312
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09527656

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A method of multicasting video to multiple client nodes via intermediate nodes that includes accessing video information descriptive of the video to be multicast, accessing information describing a distribution tree of nodes from a source of the video to the multiple clients nodes via one or more internetwork nodes, accessing rate constraints of nodes in the distribution tree, accessing buffer allocations of the nodes in the distribution tree, and determining one or more smoothed transmission schedules for each node in the distribution tree based on the accessed video information, the accessed information describing the distribution tree, the accessed rate constraints of nodes in the distribution tree, and the accessed buffer allocations of the nodes in the distribution tree, the one or more transmission schedules describing the transmission of video data to one or more children nodes.

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MASSACHUSETTS UNIVERSITY OF225 FRANKLIN STREET 12TH FLOOR BOSTON MA 02110

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dey, Jayanta Kumar Cambridge, MA 11 457
Sen, Subhabrata Amherst, MA 132 2469
Towsley, Don Amherst, MA 6 266
Zhang, Zhi-Li Minneapolis, MN 27 546

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