GENERATING SCHEDULES FOR SYNCHRONIZING BULK DATA TRANSFERS TO END NODE DEVICES IN A MULTIMEDIA NETWORK

摘要

A schedule process analyzes a set of promotion packages, building a transmission schedule for each end node device, ultimately assigning promotion identification, transmission times, port numbers, and/or multicast IP addresses for specific device groups (Figure 7, steps 2000, 2010, 2020 and 2030). Schedule messages are then sent out individually to each end node, so that the expected broadcast (multicast) message time, port, and IP address information is known by each device for each of the promotions which are intended for it to receive. The packaged promotions are then sent via bulk data transmission to the end nodes which is initiated by the generation and delivery of transmission requests to bulk data servers on the network.