Real-Time or Near Real-Time Streaming

An article comprising a computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:

• divide a stream of data into multiple media files each containing a portion of the stream of data on the server device, the multiple media files to be stored as individual files in a memory on the server device in a non-streaming transfer protocol compliant format;
• and
• generate a playlist file having a plurality of tags and a plurality of Universal Resource Indicators (URIs), the plurality of URIs indicating an ordering of the multiple media files to recreate the stream of data.

A server device comprising:

• a network interface;
• a memory, the memory to store a playlist file and multiple media file;
• a processing system coupled with the network interface and the memory, the processing system configured to divide a stream of data to generate the multiple media files where each media file stores a portion of the stream of data on the server device, the processing system configured to store the media files in the memory, the processing system configured to generate the playlist file having a plurality of tags and a plurality of Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an ordering of the multiple media files to recreate the stream of data.

A client device comprising:

• a network interface;
• a memory coupled with the processor, the memory to store a playlist file and media files received via the network interface,
• a processor coupled with the network interface, the processor to request the playlist file via the network interface using a non-streaming transfer protocol, to receive the playlist file from a server device, the playlist file having Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating a plurality of media files and a plurality of tags having parameters related to playback of the plurality of media files, to request one or more of the media files in an order indicated by the playlist file, to receive the one or more requested media files over the network using the non-streaming transfer protocol, and to generate an audio and/or video output representing the stream of content by playing the media files in the order indicated by the playlist file.

A machine readable storage medium storing executable instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:

• transmitting a playlist file to a client device using a non-streaming transfer protocol, the playlist file having a plurality of tags and a plurality of Universal Resource Indicators (URIs), the plurality of URIs indicating an ordering of multiple media files which have been divided out of a stream of data to recreate the stream of data by sequential presentation of the multiple media files;
• and
• transferring one or more of the multiple media files to the client device using the non-streaming transfer protocol in response to requests from the client device utilizing one or more of the plurality of URIs.