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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2022
Caffeine Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Bao Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
David Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
George Leontiev, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Birchler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nick Artman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Kerr, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Sankauskas, San Mateo, CA (US);
Ryan Amos, Woodside, CA (US);
Caffeine, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for broadcasting data streams. The CDN allows a streamer to stream live (in realtime) on a network(s), such as the Internet, for a live audience to view and to interact with the live entertainment. Each of the broadcast clients send data streams to the CDN via an input node, wherein the CDN output a selected media stream to one or more selected viewing clients via the output node. The architecture of the CDN contains one or more System Racks. Each of the System Racks contains multiple media channels. In operation, the data stream of a broadcasting client is sent to the CDN and distributed into selected channels. The data streams in each of the selected channels are outputted to viewing clients of a corresponding type.