Downloading Media Objects
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Abstract
Among other things, two or more files are processed that each represent, in a streaming format, a portion of a media item. A file download facility at a user device can download the two or more processed files as if they were a single file.
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69 Claims
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43. A method comprising
a mobile device running a downloading process that accepts requests to download files, at the mobile device, using the downloading process to download a single larger file that has been packaged at a server and includes two or more of at least 100 individual smaller files that comprise an entire video, each of the individual smaller files being expressed in a video streaming format and being at least an order of magnitude smaller than the entire video: -
saving the single larger file in persistent storage at the mobile device, the mobile device refraining from playing out any part of the entire video while downloading the single larger file, after the mobile device has begun downloading the single larger file, the mobile device restoring from the single larger file each of the individual smaller files it contains, and at least six hours after the entire video has been downloaded to the mobile device, and when the mobile device is offline, playing the downloaded video on the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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