System for providing live and pre-recorded audio-video content to a plurality of portals over the Internet

• US 20050010961A1
• Filed: 06/02/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gatelinx Corporation
• Original Assignee: Gatelinx Corporation
• Inventors: Stefanik, Rick, Hagen, David A.
• Application Number:
  US10/858,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010961A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/119
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2221 being a cable television head-end CATV in broadcast systems H04H20/78
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23103 using load balancing strategies, e.g. by placing or distributing content on different disks, different memories or different servers storage management G06F3/0604; allocation of resources considering the load in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/505; techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system G06F9/5083; access to distributed or replicated servers, e.g. load balancing, in data networks H04L67/1001
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23116 involving data replication, e.g. over plural servers synchronization of replicated data G06F11/1658; error detection or correction by means of data replication G06F11/2053; replication in distributed file systems G06F16/10; replication in distributed file systems G06F16/27; replication or mirroring of data in data networks H04L67/1095
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

A system for providing audiovisual media to a plurality of portals on a network including a central request server on the network that stores the media, at least one requesting portal that requests the media from the central request server, and a gateway server that is selected by the central request server to process the request from the requesting portal. The central request server replicates the media onto the selected gateway server and the selected gateway server replicates the media onto the requesting portal.

Claims

1. A system for providing audiovisual media to a plurality of portals on a network comprising:

a central request server on the network that stores the media;

at least one requesting portal that requests the media from the central request server; and

a gateway server that is selected by the central request server to process the request from the requesting portal;

wherein the central request server replicates the media onto the selected gateway server; and

wherein the selected gateway server replicates the media onto the requesting portal.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the central request server selects the closest, best performing gateway server on the network from a plurality of gateway servers.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the central request server simultaneously replicates the media onto a plurality of gateway servers on the network.

4. A system for providing audiovisual media to a plurality of portals on a network comprising:

a central request server on the network that stores the media; and

at last one requesting portal that requests the media from the central request server;

wherein the central request server replicates the media onto the requesting portal; and

wherein when additional portals request the media, the requesting portal becomes a transmitter node on the network and replicates the media onto the additional requesting portals.