US 12,464,322 B2
Systems and methods for providing dynamic edge-based multicast and broadcast service for content providers
Mansoor Ali Shah Mohammed, Plano, TX (US); and John J. Arky, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/047,847.
Prior Publication US 2024/0137731 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0236620 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 4/06 (2013.01) [H04W 4/025 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a device, content from an application server based on a user equipment generating a request to view the content over a unicast bearer;
storing, by the device, the content in a temporary data structure;
receiving, by the device, a redirected request to view the content from the user equipment;
providing, by the device, the content over the unicast bearer to the user equipment based on the redirected request;
receiving, by the device and from the user equipment, a unicast consumption of the content by the user equipment and a location of the user equipment;
determining, by the device, whether interest in the content for the location satisfies a threshold based on the unicast consumption;
initiating, by the device, multicast and broadcast service (MBS) core functions with computing resources to utilize for an MBS for the content at the location based on the interest in the content for the location satisfying the threshold; and
notifying the application server that the MBS is ready for the content at the location based on provisioning the MBS core functions.