System To Communicate Media
First Claim
1. A media system, comprising:
- an electronic device having a buffering component, a processing system, a transceiver, and a memory system, wherein the electronic device is configured to utilize HTTP to request a streaming delivery of an available media that is segmented into a series of components to facilitate delivery, wherein the series of components includes at least a given segment and an other segment;
a collection of instructions stored in the memory system and operable when executed by the processing system to allow the electronic device;
(1) to utilize HTTP to request the given segment;
(2) to receive information representing the given segment in response;
(3) to utilize HTTP to request the other segment; and
(4) to receive information representing the other segment, wherein the given segment has a given compression format that is different than a compression format of the other segment; and
the buffering component of the electronic device configured to output information in the given segment at a given rate associated with the given compression format and to output information in the other segment at a rate that is different than the given rate.
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Abstract
A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.
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20 Claims
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1. A media system, comprising:
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an electronic device having a buffering component, a processing system, a transceiver, and a memory system, wherein the electronic device is configured to utilize HTTP to request a streaming delivery of an available media that is segmented into a series of components to facilitate delivery, wherein the series of components includes at least a given segment and an other segment; a collection of instructions stored in the memory system and operable when executed by the processing system to allow the electronic device;
(1) to utilize HTTP to request the given segment;
(2) to receive information representing the given segment in response;
(3) to utilize HTTP to request the other segment; and
(4) to receive information representing the other segment, wherein the given segment has a given compression format that is different than a compression format of the other segment; andthe buffering component of the electronic device configured to output information in the given segment at a given rate associated with the given compression format and to output information in the other segment at a rate that is different than the given rate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A media system, comprising:
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a media delivery system that includes a processing system, a transceiver, and a memory system, wherein the media delivery system is configured to utilize HTTP to provide a streaming delivery of an available media to a requesting device, wherein the available media is segmented into a series of component parts including at least a given segment and an other segment; and a collection of instructions stored in the memory system and operable when executed by the processing system to allow the media delivery system;
(1) to receive an HTTP request for the given segment;
(2) to utilize HTTP to send information representing the given segment in response to the HTTP request for the given segment;
(3) to receive an other HTTP request for the other segment; and
(4) to utilize HTTP to send information representing the other segment in response to the other HTTP request for the other segment, wherein the given segment has a given compression format that is different than a compression format of the other segment. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A media system, comprising:
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a media delivery system that includes an electronic device having a processing system, a transceiver, and a memory system, wherein the media delivery system is configured to utilize HTTP to provide a streaming delivery of an available media to a requesting device accessing the electronic device via an information network, wherein the available media is accessible as a series of component parts including at least a given segment and an other segment; a collection of instructions stored in the memory system and operable when executed by the processing system to allow the electronic device;
(1) to receive an HTTP request for the given segment;
(2) to utilize HTTP to send information representing the given segment in response to the HTTP request for the given segment;
(3) to receive an other HTTP request for the other segment; and
(4) to utilize HTTP to send information representing the other segment in response to the other HTTP request for the other segment, wherein the given segment has a given compression format that is different than a compression format of the other segment;a website-based graphical user interface for the media delivery system that comprises a personalized webpage for each of a plurality of registered users; and a messaging system configured to facilitate a communication of a message to a given registered user. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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