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Method and system for broadcasting multimedia data

  • US 20060085553A1
  • Filed: 10/05/2005
  • Published: 04/20/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining a transport mode comprising the activities of:

  • transmitting a multicast stream by a server to a media player application;

    checking for features of a multicast streaming format by the media player application upon receiving the multicast stream;

    enabling a unicast transmission if the media player application does not receive the transmitted multicast stream or does not detect features of a multicast streaming format;

    enabling multicast streaming upon detecting features of a multicast streaming format by the media player application.

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