US 2009/0157893 A1 · PERSONAL MEDIA RELAY FOR REBROADCASTING STREAMING DATA

Abstract

A Personal Media Relay (PMR) is used to retransmit data in a system for point-to-point data streaming over a TCP/IP network. It is “Personal” because it is downloadable by end-users will onto their own personal computers (PCs) in order to help their other devices (e.g. a mobile device) send or receive data. The user installs the PMR, which is a software application, onto a personal computer (PC) that is perhaps more powerful and accesses higher Internet bandwidth than the Sender. Subsequently, the user streams data from the Sender to the PMR, which resends the live streaming data to potentially many Viewers. During PMR installation and configuration, users are given the option of allowing others to utilize their PMR as well for rebroadcasting streaming data.

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Dependent claims

A personal media relay system for rebroadcasting streaming data, comprising:

a sending device of a user for capturing media data for streaming;
personal media relay software, downloaded by the user to a personal computer of the user, said software further comprising:
a media receiver for receiving the captured streaming data from the sending device;
a media resender for using a server mediator node to passively create and maintain a session with a peer of the sending device and for resending the captured streaming data.

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Personal media relay for rebroadcasting streaming data

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