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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING, STORING, AND PRESENTING MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMMING WITHOUT INDEXING PRIOR TO STORAGE

  • US 20110038615A1
  • Filed: 10/18/2010
  • Published: 02/17/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of presenting a stored multimedia program, the method comprising:

  • receiving a seek input associated with non-contiguous playback of the stored multimedia program;

    based on statistical information associated with the multimedia program, determining a seek position and a data read size associated with the seek input, wherein the statistical information comprises an average frame size of the multimedia program and an average size of a group of pictures in the multimedia program, wherein each group of pictures in the multimedia program begins with a frame encoded independently of other frames;

    loading a portion of the stored multimedia program into a memory, wherein the loaded portion begins at the seek position and is of the data read size;

    determining whether the loaded portion of the stored multimedia program includes a complete independently-encoded frame; and

    responsive to determining that the loaded portion includes a complete independently-encoded frame, outputting the loaded portion from the memory for presentation, commencing at, and including at least, the complete independently-encoded frame.

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