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Method and apparatus that provides a scalable media delivery system

  • US 5,953,506 A
  • Filed: 12/17/1996
  • Issued: 09/14/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of communicating multimedia digital data from a server computer to a client computer comprising the steps of:

  • determining multimedia characteristics of said client computer;

    determining available bandwidth of a communication channel linking said server computer and said client computer;

    determining a selected set of adaptive streams containing said multimedia digital data relating to at least one of sight and sound and intended to be transmitted to said client computer based upon said determined multimedia characteristics and said determined bandwidth, said adaptive streams being stored on a memory of said server computer and formed of a base stream and a plurality of additive streams, said additive streams containing additive data which corresponds to base data associated with said base stream, such that additional additive data from each additive stream provides increasingly greater resolution of said one sight and sound; and

    transmitting said selected set of adaptive streams from said server computer to said client computer.

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