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AssigneeDISH Network Technologies India Private Limited
InventorTalapady Madhav Narayan Bhat
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Media streaming connections are maintained even when media playback is paused or otherwise temporarily halted through the use of dummy segments that are delivered via the media streaming connection, thereby preventing non-use of the connection. In some implementations, the dummy segments are requested by the media client device. In other implementations, dummy segments are transmitted by the media server device when no other requests are received, when notification of paused playback is received, or when conditions otherwise warrant. The dummy segments may be relatively blank, contain redundant imagery, or otherwise be easily compressible to reduce bandwidth consumption on the network. Received dummy segments are recognized and discarded by the media player device, as appropriate.
An automated process performed by a media player device to play a media stream received from a media server device via a digital network, the automated process comprising:
A media player device to play a media stream received from a media server device via a digital network, the media player device comprising a processor, non-transitory data storage and an interface to the digital network, wherein the non-transitory data storage is configured with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform an automated process comprising:
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