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Combined broadcast and unicast delivery

  • US 9,769,236 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2014
  • Issued: 09/19/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a media stream at a client device from a broadcast media server, the media stream comprising a plurality of media stream fragments;

    transmitting a request to a unicast server to receive the media stream via unicast delivery;

    receiving the media stream at the client device from a unicast media server, the transmission of the media stream fragments from the broadcast media server being delayed relative to the transmission of the media stream fragments from the unicast media server;

    maintaining a media fragment buffer to store a designated number of the media stream fragments, wherein the designated number of the media stream fragments meets or exceeds the delay; and

    presenting the media stream at the client device, wherein media fragments stored in the media fragment buffer are presented while switching between receiving the media stream fragments from the unicast server and the broadcast server.

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