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Automated Media Delivery System

  • US 20090089422A1
  • Filed: 09/26/2008
  • Published: 04/02/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/21/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method in a host computer for developing transformation processing operations to optimize media content playback across multiple playback devices connected with the host computer in a network, the method comprising receiving requests from the multiple devices for concurrent playback of media content at a first quality level;

  • determining a set of independent transformations of the media content that fulfill the requests at the first quality level;

    if transformations are required, determining whether processing resources available on the host computer are sufficient to perform the independent transformations; and

    if the processing resources are insufficient to perform the independent transformations, determining a set of dependent transformations that fulfill the requests at a second quality level within limits of the processing resources of the host computer.

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