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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2012
Applicants:
Silviu Bota, Horgen, CH;
Bianca Milatinovici, Zurich, CH;
Christian Ingemar Falk, Zürich, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/455 (2006.01); H04N 21/2365 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2365 (2013.01); H04N 21/262 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for generating and distributing overlay streams in real time over an overlay stream distribution channel that overlays events of a video stream distributed in a separate video channel. Overlay streams are distributed to subscriber recipient components via a unicast channel in order to enhance user viewing. A publisher subscriber component and caching techniques a low latency, high availability unicasting based real time overlay distribution system for a large numbers of concurrent overlay recipients.