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US 2011/0087794 A1Published application
System and Method to Support Different Ingest and Delivery Schemes for a Content Delivery Network
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHongbing Li, Peng Zhang, Yunchao Gao, Ye-Kui Wang, Yue Chen, Hong Heather Yu
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Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a computer server includes receiving streaming media data. The streaming media data includes content fragments and a media description file, and the media description file includes metadata describing the content fragments. The method also includes storing the content fragments in a cache.
Claims20
A method of operating a computer server, the method comprising:
- receiving streaming media data, the streaming media data comprising content fragments and a media description file, the media description file comprising metadata describing the content fragments;
- and
- storing the content fragments in a cache.
A method of operating a computer server, the method comprising:
- receiving source media content;
- and
- processing the source media content to produce content fragments and a media description file describing the content fragments, wherein the content fragments and the media description file comprise a uniform format.
A server system comprising:
- an input port;
- a cache;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive a streaming media data from an input port, the streaming media data comprising content fragments and a media description file, the media description file comprising metadata describing the content fragments,
- store the content fragments in a cache,
- combine a plurality of the content fragments from the cache to produce streaming media content of a particular configuration,
- transmit the streaming media content of the particular configuration to a media client.
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