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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2003
Liping Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jin Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan L. Lemon, Stoughton, WI (US);
Zheng Yang, Fremont, CA (US);
Liping Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jin Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan L. Lemon, Stoughton, WI (US);
Zheng Yang, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A gateway application in a content engine multiplexes requests for real-time content to servers that, in turn, service the requests by streaming appropriate real-time content to requesting users. A software communication port of the content engine may be reserved to receive request messages from multiple client computers, at least two of which request streaming of real-time content according to different selected formats. After identifying client properties (e.g., a format for which to receive streaming real-time content) associated with the requests for real-time content, the gateway application identifies corresponding servers of the content engine to serve the real-time content according to the different selected formats. The gateway application forwards the requests for streaming of real-time content associated with the request messages to the corresponding servers which, in turn, satisfy the requests by streaming the requested real-time content to the client computers.