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Real-Time or Near Real-Time Streaming with Compressed Playlists

  • US 20110138020A1
  • Filed: 12/14/2010
  • Published: 06/09/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A machine readable storage medium storing executable program instructions that when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:

  • requesting, with a client device, a playlist file over a network using a transfer protocol, wherein the requesting specifies at least one compression protocol;

    receiving, with the client device, the playlist file, the playlist file having URIs indicating a plurality of media files and a plurality of tags having parameters related to playback of the plurality of media files and decoding, with the client device, the playlist file;

    using the transfer protocol, requesting one or more of the media files in an order indicated by the requested playlist file;

    receiving the one or more requested media files over the network using the transfer protocol.

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