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Method and system for fault tolerant media streaming over the Internet

  • US 20080052404A1
  • Filed: 10/30/2007
  • Published: 02/28/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of fault tolerant delivery of live media content, the content being available in a given media format as a stream of data packets, comprising:

  • receiving the stream at each of one or more data centers;

    from at least one data center, outputting a copy of each packet in the stream to a set of remote server regions, wherein a remove server region comprises a set of one or more media servers associated with the given media format;

    at a remote server region, feeding the stream to each of the set of one or more media servers associated with the given media format so that each of the set of one or more media servers in the remote server region is available to provide the stream of data packets;

    within the remote server region, at each of the one or more media servers in the set of media servers, receiving the stream of data packets; and

    in response to each end user request that is directed, via a content delivery network (CDN) domain name server, to one of the set of media servers in the remote server region that has received the stream of data packets, outputting the stream of data packets from a given media server in the remote server region.

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