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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2003
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yasuhiro Endo, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandeep Yadav, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yasuhiro Endo, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandeep Yadav, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a streaming media cache configured to select a timing interval, chosen from a set of one or more predetermined timing intervals, for each client that requests a data stream from the streaming media cache. Illustratively, clients requesting data streams below a predetermined bit rate ('bandwidth') are assigned longer timing intervals than clients requesting data streams above the predetermined bit rate. More specifically, because the server can accommodate a larger number of relatively low-bandwidth clients than relatively high-bandwidth clients, the server selects timing intervals of longer duration for the relatively low-bandwidth clients so it may have more time to schedule send times for their requested packets.