Tuesday, April 04, 2006

BigBand Networks is Awarded First US Patent for Dynamic Provisioning of Digital Media Streams



Tuesday April 4, 8:30 am ET
Innovative technologies provide foundation for widespread industry collaboration onswitched broadcast, enabling bandwidth reclamation and advanced functionality

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading provider of broadband multimedia infrastructure for video, voice and data, today announced it has been awarded US Patent No. 6,999,477. This is for the method and system of selecting media streams from multiple sources, and dynamically provisioning them to particular groups of subscribers. The practice is fundamental to the expanding practice of switching digital video and constitutes the backbone of the BigBand Switched Broadcast solution.

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