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Termination of fragment delivery services from data centers participating in distributed streaming operations

  • US 20100094971A1
  • Filed: 10/15/2009
  • Published: 04/15/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. ) A large scale streaming system, comprising:

  • a plurality of data centers, spread across a wide geographical area, comprising together >

    100 fractional-storage CDN servers configured to store erasure-coded fragments encoded with a redundancy factor R and associated with approximately sequential segments of streaming contents; and

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    10,000 assembling devices configured to obtain the fragments for streaming the contents;

    wherein no data center stores more than (1−

    1/R) of the fragments associated with a single segment to be reconstructed, and wherein upon termination of a fragment delivery service from approximately any one of the data centers, the affected assembling devices continue streaming the contents by obtaining fragments from servers still in service.

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