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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2008
Gene Cheung, Tokyo, JP;
Gene Cheung, Tokyo, JP;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In a method of distributing packets from a multimedia source to a plurality of nodes, in at least one of the plurality of nodes, a packet stream is received from the multimedia source and a received packet is outputted. In addition, in at least another one of the plurality of nodes, the packet stream is received from the multimedia source, a packet outputted by the at least one of the plurality of nodes is received, determination as to whether a packet is missing from the packet stream received from the multimedia source is made, a determination as to whether the packet outputted by the at least one other node comprises a missing packet is made, and the packet outputted by the at least one other node is stored in response to the outputted packet comprising a missing packet.