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Purchasable Token Bandwidth Portioning

Abstract

Embodiments of purchasable token bandwidth portioning techniques are described herein. Tokens are designated to portion bandwidth, allocated by a content provider to stream contents, to a plurality of client devices as a group. When one of the client devices attempts to consume content that would cause the group to exceed the allocated amount of bandwidth, an additional token is purchased.

Filed on: 2006-02-28; Application Number: 11276445