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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2003
Applicants:

David Carver, Lexington, MA (US);

Branko J. Gerovac, Lexington, MA (US);

R. James Kelso, Acton, MA (US);

Yvette Marie Gordon, Orlando, FL (US);

Mark Sanders, Carlisle, MA (US);

Brian E. Kahn, Arlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

David Carver, Lexington, MA (US);

Branko J. Gerovac, Lexington, MA (US);

R. James Kelso, Acton, MA (US);

Yvette Marie Gordon, Orlando, FL (US);

Mark Sanders, Carlisle, MA (US);

Brian E. Kahn, Arlington, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An enhanced playback method including receiving real time content from source links connected to a sources, simultaneously storing the real time content as stored content using a fault tolerant and load balancing method, aggregating the real time content and stored content from additional content, delivering content real time or stored in response to a user request from a user on a terminal system using a cut-through forwarding method. A content/service handling and delivery system including source input/output (I/O) links, a content handling subsystem, the content handling subsystem connected to the source input links, a service delivery subsystem connected to the content handling subsystem, an input and interaction subsystem connected to the service delivery subsystem and terminal I/O links, the plurality terminal I/O links connected to the service delivery subsystem.


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