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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2003
Damon Lanphear, Vashon Island, WA (US);
Damon Lanphear, Vashon Island, WA (US);
RealNetworks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Content is streamed from a providing device to a receiving device, where the content is successively buffered in a receiving buffer, and then successively removed for processing. Periodically, the likelihood of the receiving buffer becoming empty or reaching an unacceptable low threshold is assessed, and the streaming rate is adapted based on the result of the determination. In one embodiment, a probability is computed, modeling the packet arrival into the receiving buffer and removal as Markovian input and output processes respectively, and the receiving buffer as a single channel queue. In one embodiment, the likelihood is determined by the content providing device, based at least in part on feedback information from the content receiving device, and the streaming rate is stochastically adapted accordingly.
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