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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2001
Jason Lango, Mountain View, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Lieh-yuan Tsai, Atlanta, GA (US);
J. Christopher Wagner, Langley, WA (US);
Jason Lango, Mountain View, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai, Atlanta, GA (US);
J. Christopher Wagner, Langley, WA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system having a memory for providing streaming media in one of a plurality of streaming media protocols includes a first plurality of interfaces configured to initiate reading of packet meta-data and packets of payload data from a memory, and a second plurality of interfaces configured to output streaming media packets to a client system at a requested pace, wherein the streaming media packets are determined in response to the packet meta-data, to the packets of payload data, and to a streaming media protocol requested, wherein the packet meta-data and the packets of payload data are read from the memory at a pace independent of the requested pace for the streaming media packets, and wherein the second plurality of interfaces support more than one streaming media protocol.