US 7,865,811 B2 · Distribution method, preferably applied in a streaming system

Abstract

The invention relates to a data live streaming system comprising at least one data live streaming broadcaster LSB and at least two live streaming recipients LSR, said at least two live streaming recipients LSR forming at least a part of a peer-to-peer streaming network and said at least two live streaming recipients LSR each comprising means for generation of peer-to peer streaming to other live streaming recipients LSR of said peer-to peer streaming network and wherein said peer-to peer streaming to other streaming recipients LSR comprises loss resilient code representations of data from said at least one live streaming broadcaster LSB.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A data distribution method for distributing input data from a broadcaster to one or more recipient peers, the data distribution method comprising the steps of:

generating two or more code segments from the input data;
generating two or more seed packets from each of at least two of the code segments;
generating two or more feed packets from each of at least two of the seed packets;
distributing two or more of the feed packets to the recipient peers;
and
reproducing the input data from the distributed feed packets in one or more of the recipient peers.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/503,437Filed 15 Jul 2009 · continuation

Published

US 2009/0276536 A15 Nov 2009

Granted

4 Jan 2011

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 67/104
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
H04L 65/611
For supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio: for multicast or broadcast
H04L 67/06
Protocols: specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
H04L 67/1091
Using cross-functional networking aspects: interfacing with client-server systems or between P2P systems

Family

PCT/DK2004/000197Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Mar 2004

US 2009/0276536 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Nov 2009

Application10/593,942Parent of this continuation

US 7,581,158 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2008/0052606 A1Published application

US 7,865,811 B2This patent

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Distribution method, preferably applied in a streaming system

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Distribution method, preferably applied in a streaming system

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Abstract

Claims21