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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:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Applicants:
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Durham, NC (US);
Kenneth C. Sevcik, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Michael Stumm, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Durham, NC (US);
Kenneth C. Sevcik, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Michael Stumm, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A media server having at least one of a stride-based storage device space allocation scheme, stride-based method of striping data across multiple storage devices for continuous media streaming, server-based smoothing of variable bit-rate streams, distributed architecture, and fault tolerance.