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Method and apparatus for seaming of streaming content

  • US 6,263,371 B1
  • Filed: 06/10/1999
  • Issued: 07/17/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method, comprising seaming together two or more input data streams of common content, each made up of a number of packets, being received from a content source across one or more computer networks using an unreliable media transmission protocol at a proxy disposed between the content source and one or more content consumers so as to provide one or more output data streams to the or more content consumers, each of the output data streams including packets from multiple ones of the input data streams and including fewer missing packets than any individual one of the input data streams being received at the proxy from the content source.

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