Downloading Media Objects

• US 20160234293A1
• Filed: 12/29/2015
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Penthera Partners, Inc
• Original Assignee: Penthera Partners, Inc
• Inventors: Berger, Adam L, Pressnell, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US14/982,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20160234293A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

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.

Claims

1. A method comprising

downloading two or more files from a server, the files each being expressed in a video streaming format and together comprising all or part of a video,

packaging at least some of the downloaded files in a single file,

the single file containing (a) two or more of the streaming-format files downloaded from the server, and (b) information from which each of the streaming-format files can be identified distinctly, and

delivering the single larger file to a mobile device over the Internet.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the information from which each of the streaming-format files can be identified distinctly comprises a unique identifier for each of the streaming-format files.

3. The method of claim 2 in which the unique identifier is contained in the single file.

4. The method of claim 1 in which the packaging occurs at a server.

5. The method of claim 1 in which the packaging is done by a facility associated with a CDN.

6. The method of claim 1 in which the number of files downloaded from the server is at least 100.

7. The method of claim 1 in which the number of files downloaded from the server is at least 1000.

8. The method of claim 1 in which the packaging comprises also delivering to the mobile device information indicative of a beginning of each of the streaming-format files in the single file.

9. The method of claim 1 comprising

delivering to the mobile device a manifest file that lists the streaming-format files packaged in the single file.

10. A method comprising

downloading at least 1000 files from a server, the files each being expressed in a video streaming format and together comprising all or part of a video,

at a server associated with a CDN, packaging at least some of the downloaded files in a single file,

the single file containing (a) two or more of the streaming-format files downloaded from the server, and (b) a unique identifier for each of the streaming-format files,

delivering the single larger file to a mobile device over the Internet, and

delivering to the mobile device a manifest file that lists the streaming-format files packaged in the single file.