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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2007
Terence Sean Sullivan, Somerville, MA (US);
Richard E. Barnett, Newton, MA (US);
Terence Brennan, Melbourne, FL (US);
Terence Sean Sullivan, Somerville, MA (US);
Richard E. Barnett, Newton, MA (US);
Terence Brennan, Melbourne, FL (US);
RangeCast Technologies LLC, Ely, NV (US);
Abstract
A network audio receive terminal. A receive terminal includes a network interface that receives network packets and a network packet scanner coupled to the network interface that sequentially scans received network packets in accordance with scan criteria. A content selector is coupled to the network packet scanner, and selects network packets containing units of audio content from the scanned network packets based on selection criteria, including pertinence data. An audio content processor is coupled to the content selector, and processes the audio content in the selected network packets. The network packets may include directory packets containing audio content addresses, in which case, the content selector further selects directory packets based on selection criteria. An audio packet requestor requests audio packets through the network identified by the audio content addresses that correspond to the selected directory packets.