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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:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2001
Gavin Horn, Emeryville, CA (US);
Michael G. Luby, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jens Rasmussen, Alameda, CA (US);
Per Knudsgaard, Oakland, CA (US);
Soren Lassen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gavin Horn, Emeryville, CA (US);
Michael G. Luby, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jens Rasmussen, Alameda, CA (US);
Per Knudsgaard, Oakland, CA (US);
Soren Lassen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Digital Fountain, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A media object is scheduled for transmission between a server and a client. The media object is partitioned into segments of blocks, wherein each block is a unit of media for which a client will wait to receive an entire block before playing out the block, and wherein each segment includes an integer number of blocks. One or more channels on which to serve each segment are determined, and a rate at which to serve each segment is determined. Additionally, a schedule pair for each channel is determined. The schedule pair includes a time at which the client may start receiving on the channel and a time at which the client may stop receiving on the channel.