Method and System for Transmitting a Data File Over a Data Network

A data file streaming system operable to stream a data file to a remote device over a data network, the data file comprising a plurality of ordered data segments having associated respective ordinal values and a header file, the header file including a segment frequency value representing the number of segments in the data file, and/or other values required for decompression, the system being configured to:

• transmit the header file to the remote device over the data network;
• transmit the first data segment of the plurality of ordered data segments over the data network to the remote device at the request of a first execution thread, operating on the remote device, concurrently with the second or subsequent data segments;
• transmit the second data segment of the plurality of ordered data segments over the data network to the remote device at the request of a second execution thread, operating on the remote device, concurrently with the first or additional data segments;
• transmit subsequent alternate data segments over the data network to the remote device at the request of the first and second execution threads concurrently;
• increase the value of a counter value on the remote device to the ordinal value associated with the data segment most recently transmitted over the data network following complete transmission of each data segment;
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• sort each transmitted data segment into order at the remote device based on the counter value following complete transmission of each data segment.