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Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2008
Applicants:

Erik R. Swenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Nitin Bhandari, Fremont, CA (US);

Vijay Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Erik R. Swenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Nitin Bhandari, Fremont, CA (US);

Vijay Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Skyfire Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/54 (2006.01); G06K 9/60 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and a method for communicating video data associated with content across a network are disclosed. A server partitions the content into a plurality of tiles where each tile includes a subset of the content and index data describing a relationship between a tile and one or more adjacent tiles. Each tile is then encoded as a video frame, for example each tile is encoded according to the H.264 standard. The plurality of tiles are then transmitted to a client which combines the plurality of tiles using the index data to locally recreate the content. The client associates a predetermined viewport tile with a client viewport representing the area of the content that is visible in a client display device to allow viewing of the content while tiles not associated with the client viewport are cached to expedite subsequent retrieval.


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