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Peer-to-peer aided live video sharing system

  • US 7,733,808 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/2006
  • Issued: 06/08/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving a prefetch request for a particular packet of a video stream at a peer from one or more partners of the peer, wherein the one or more partners comprise a subset of peers of a peer-to-peer overlay;

    receiving a packet of the video stream at the peer;

    pushing the packet, by the peer, to an individual partner of the one or more partners whose associated prefetch request matches the packet; and

    updating a local copy of the individual partner'"'"'s buffer map at the peer after pushing the packet, wherein the buffer map indicates packets of the video stream available in a partner packet queue.

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