SEAMLESS DIGITAL STREAMING OVER DIFFERENT DEVICE TYPES

• US 20120303834A1
• Filed: 05/25/2012
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stellatus, LLC
• Original Assignee: Stellatus, LLC
• Inventors: Adam, Tarek N., Adiwijaya, Igg
• Application Number:
  US13/481,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303834A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/577 for watching a game played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/437 Interfacing the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. for transmitting client requests to a VOD server flow control in data networks H04L47/10; streaming protocols, e.g. RTP or RTCP, H04L65/65; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests in data packet switching networks H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6377 directed to server one-way streaming services wherein the source is controlled by the destination H04L65/613
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6408 Unicasting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

The claimed invention provides a single generic solution by treating live video capture as any other running application on the end-user screen. This allows the technique of capturing consecutive snapshots of a running application window to be applicable to live video capture as well. Specifically, the invention captures and generates video streams for the different content types as follows: (1) live video. Unlike prior art approaches where the capturing software interacts directly with an on-board camera, the invention interacts with and streams the camera playback window; (2) Static video. Rather than streaming directly off the video file, the invention enables the video file to be played on the screen and the playback window to be captured and streamed; and (3) View of running application and view of user desktop. The invention takes consecutive snapshots of an application window or desktop, generates video out of the snapshots, and streams it.

Claims

1. A system for digitally streaming content, comprising:

a streaming client;

a viewing client; and

a streaming server coupled between said streaming client and said viewing client, said streaming server being configured to;

process streaming requests from said viewing client;

identify streaming parameters of said viewing client;

receive streaming content from said streaming client;

convert said received streaming content to a format consistent with the streaming parameters of said viewing client; and

provide said converted received streaming content to said viewing client.