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Semi reliable transport of multimedia content

  • US 8,060,645 B1
  • Filed: 05/26/2009
  • Issued: 11/15/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for processing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) segments received from a server, the method comprising:

  • receiving a first TCP segment from the server and placing in a segment queue the first TCP segment, the first TCP segment having a first sequence number of a sequence;

    determining whether a second TCP segment is missing from the segment queue based at least in part on the first sequence number;

    responsive to determining that the second TCP segment is missing from the segment queue, placing in the segment queue a placeholder for the second TCP segment;

    assigning a deadline delivery time to the placeholder, the deadline delivery time determined based on a cutoff time for delivering the second TCP segment to an application to which the second TCP segment is intended; and

    responsive to the second TCP segment not being received from the server by the deadline delivery time, skipping the second TCP segment and moving on to deliver a next TCP segment in the sequence.

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