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Streaming media delivery system

DC CAFC
  • US 9,742,824 B2
  • Filed: 10/03/2016
  • Issued: 08/22/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for distributing over the Internet, from a server system to one or more user systems, a pre-recorded audio or video program stored in digitally encoded form on computer-readable media, the method comprising:

  • reading, by at least one computer of the server system, the pre-recorded audio or video program from the computer-readable media;

    supplying, at the server system, media data elements representing the program, each media data element comprising a digitally encoded portion of the program and having a playback rate;

    serially identifying the media data elements, said serial identification indicating a time sequence of the media data elements;

    storing the media data elements in a data structure under the control of the server system;

    receiving requests at the server system via one or more data connections over the Internet, for one or more of the media data elements stored in the data structure, each received request specifying one or more serial identifiers of the requested one or more media data elements, each received request originating from a requesting user system of the one or more user systems; and

    responsive to the requests, sending, by the server system, the one or more media data elements having the one or more specified serial identifiers, to the requesting user systems corresponding to the requests;

    whereinthe data connection between the server system and each requesting user system has a data rate more rapid than the playback rate of the one or more media data elements sent via that connection;

    each sending is at a transmission rate as fast as the data connection between the server system and each requesting user system allow;

    the one or more media data element sent are selected without depending on the server system maintaining a record of the last media data element sent to the requesting user systems;

    all of the media data elements that are sent by the server system to the one or more user systems are sent in response to the requests; and

    all of the media data elements that are sent by the server system to the requesting user systems are sent from the data structure under the control of the server system as the media data elements were first stored therein.

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