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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Michael D. Hudson, Portland, OR (US);
Brian L. Windheim, Sherwood, OR (US);
Darin Stewart, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sudhir Menon, Portland, OR (US);
Mark W. Goschie, Tualatin, OR (US);
Glen Curtis Shipley, Portland, OR (US);
Michael D. Hudson, Portland, OR (US);
Brian L. Windheim, Sherwood, OR (US);
Darin Stewart, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sudhir Menon, Portland, OR (US);
Mark W. Goschie, Tualatin, OR (US);
Glen Curtis Shipley, Portland, OR (US);
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
Media content, including content suitable for streaming, is distributed to and accessible over a communications network by computer nodes within a peer storage network of computer nodes hosting respective content stores. Discrete portions of a content file are multiply distributed to and persisted in a distributed set of the content stores existing within the storage network such that various content stores persist subsets of the content file portions. A computer node retrieves the discrete portions of the content file from the various distributed content stores, depending on node availability, the particular discrete portions there available, and node and network performance factors sufficient to maintain a minimum quality of service, thereby enabling streaming presentation of the content file on the requesting computer node.