Patent 11943272 was granted and assigned to COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC on March, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A computing device may provide content items to user devices requesting the content items. The computing device may receive the content item, in portions, from a source, and may send the portions to the user device. The computing device may send a first portion before the computing device receives all of the content item from the source. The request may also be associated with an expiration period, and the expiration period may affect the sending of the content item to the user device.