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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
May. 09, 2012
Thomas Anthony Stahl, Indianapolis, IN (US);
John William Richardson, Hamilton, NJ (US);
Thomas Anthony Stahl, Indianapolis, IN (US);
John William Richardson, Hamilton, NJ (US);
Thomson Licensing, Issy-les moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method is disclosed in which a buffer receives a first content stream carrying a content channel signal. The first content stream carries the content channel signal at a rate substantially greater than the streaming content playout rate, for initially loading the buffer. The buffer switches its reception of the content channel signal from the first content stream to a second content stream. The second content stream is at a rate substantially the same as the streaming content playout rate. Generally, this switch occurs when some predefined threshold of the content channel signal is buffered.