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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2009
Vishal Sood, Bothell, WA (US);
Jack E. Freelander, Monroe, WA (US);
Anirban Roy, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lin Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Geqiang (Sam) Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishna Duggaraju, Renton, WA (US);
Sudheer Sirivara, Redmond, WA (US);
John A. Bocharov, Seattle, WA (US);
Vishal Sood, Bothell, WA (US);
Jack E. Freelander, Monroe, WA (US);
Anirban Roy, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lin Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Geqiang (Sam) Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishna Duggaraju, Renton, WA (US);
Sudheer Sirivara, Redmond, WA (US);
John A. Bocharov, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An adaptive streaming system is described herein that provides a stateless connection between the client and server for streaming media playback in which the data is formatted in a manner that allows the client to make decisions and react more quickly to changing network conditions. The client requests uniform chunks of media from the server that include a portion of the media. The adaptive streaming system requests portions of a media file or of a live streaming event in small-sized chunks each having a distinguished URL. This allows streaming media data to be cached by existing Internet cache infrastructure. Each chunk contains metadata information that describes the encoding of the chunk and media content for playback by the client. The server may provide chunks in multiple encodings so that the client can switch quickly to chunks of a different bit rate or playback speed.