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Mobitv, Inc.

Emil Pettersson

Kent Karlsson

Fritz Barnes

Martin Linderoth

Anders Ödlund

Ola Hallmarker

Anders Odlund

Thomas Matsson

Mesut Yousseinof

A media stream delivery system encodes and fragments media streams into numerous media stream fragments maintained on fragment servers. Playlist information, media data, and bandwidth adaption data is provided as box information with media stream fragments to reduce the number of client requests required to begin playback or perform a channel change. A client no longer needs to make separate requests for bandwidth adaptation data, media data, or playlist information. Playback can begin as soon as sufficient media stream fragments are received.

Enhanced startup and channel change for fragmented media stream delivery

Mechanisms are provided to manage media stream transmissions at a content server. A content server detects that a user on a device such as a mobile device has stopped playing a live media stream. The content server maintains information associating the user with the media stream and time information. When the content server detects that a user wishes to resume playing a media stream, the user can continue viewing the media stream from where stoppage occurred. In many instances, the content server stores many hours of live media stream data and allows a user to select a particular starting point.

Content server media stream management

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Obbola, Sweden

Emil Pettersson