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Patent No.:

US 10237580 B1

Date of Patent:

Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2012

Method and system for broadcasting multimedia data

Applicants:

Jon Rachwalski, Holbrook, NY (US);

Daniel Witt, Center Moriches, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jon Rachwalski, Holbrook, NY (US);

Daniel Witt, Center Moriches, NY (US);

Assignee:

VectorMax Corporation, Farmingdale, NY (US);

Attorney:

Jack Schwartz & Associates, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Aaron N Strange

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/218 (2011.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); H04L 12/927 (2013.01); H03M 7/30 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/222 (2011.01); H04N 21/2347 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/4405 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/6334 (2011.01); H04N 21/6405 (2011.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01); H04N 19/51 (2014.01); H04N 19/107 (2014.01); H04N 19/162 (2014.01); H04N 19/57 (2014.01); H04N 19/40 (2014.01); H04N 19/583 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/119 (2014.01); H04N 19/136 (2014.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

H04N 21/2181 (2013.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); H03M 7/30 (2013.01); H04L 1/0083 (2013.01); H04L 9/065 (2013.01); H04L 12/1877 (2013.01); H04L 29/06027 (2013.01); H04L 47/806 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 63/0807 (2013.01); H04L 65/4069 (2013.01); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01); H04N 7/1675 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 19/107 (2014.11); H04N 19/119 (2014.11); H04N 19/136 (2014.11); H04N 19/162 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/40 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11); H04N 19/51 (2014.11); H04N 19/57 (2014.11); H04N 19/583 (2014.11); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/222 (2013.01); H04N 21/2347 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/25875 (2013.01); H04N 21/26613 (2013.01); H04N 21/4405 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/47205 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/63345 (2013.01); H04N 21/6405 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01); H04L 2001/0093 (2013.01);

Abstract

A broadcast system provides support for clients to receive transmissions over a unicast or a multicast channel from a broadcast server. A server administrator configures each of a first server and client systems connected to the server to receive data in one of a multicast or unicast transmission mode. An empirical test determines whether an intervening network can support the configured mode and if not, transmission is performed using a fall back mode. The first server is able to provide access to data streams from other servers to the client systems connected thereto. Upon requesting a data stream from another server, the first server receives the data stream, replicates the data stream, transmits the data stream to the requesting client system and stores the replicated data stream for immediate access by any requesting client server connected thereto.

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