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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2010
Allen J. Huotari, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Kendra Harrington, Irvine, CA (US);
Siddhartha Dattagupta, Irvine, CA (US);
Thomas Cowling, Des Moines, WA (US);
Allen J. Huotari, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Kendra Harrington, Irvine, CA (US);
Siddhartha Dattagupta, Irvine, CA (US);
Thomas Cowling, Des Moines, WA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure emulate multicast by generating and synchronizing multiple unicasts of a single content in different encoding formats to multiple devices on a shared network. In one embodiment, a method for multicast emulation includes receiving a request to join an active stream containing a media content. The method also includes identifying a position of the active stream from which to start a new unicast stream of the same media content. The method further includes providing the new unicast stream starting from the identified position, where the new unicast stream is in a format independent from the format of the active stream and the new unicast stream is synchronized to the active stream.