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Method and system for triggering ingestion of remote content by a streaming server using uniform resource locator folder mapping

  • US 10,007,668 B2
  • Filed: 08/01/2008
  • Issued: 06/26/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of streaming a media file from an RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) streaming server computer to a client device, the method comprising:

  • (a) at the RTSP streaming server computer, maintaining a configuration file for mapping a folder portion of an RTSP streaming URL (Universal Resource Locator) to a HTTP content URL of a content folder on a HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) server computer;

    (b) publishing the media file to the content folder on the HTTP server computer;

    (c) receiving, at the RTSP streaming server computer, a request for streaming the media file to the client device, the request including the RTSP streaming URL including a folder portion and a path portion;

    (d) using the configuration file to map the folder portion of the RTSP streaming URL to the URL of the content folder on the HTTP server computer;

    (e) constructing an HTTP content URL of the media file by concatenating the URL of the content folder on the HTTP server computer with the path portion of the RTSP streaming URL;

    (f) using the HTTP content URL of the media file, fetching the media file from the HTTP server computer to the RTSP streaming server computer; and

    (g) streaming the media file from the RTSP streaming server computer to the client device.

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