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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Mobitv, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kay Johansson, Oakland, CA (US);
Kent Karlsson, Sodertalie, SE;
Assignee:
MobiTV, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/236 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/607 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/23424 (2013.01); H04N 21/236 (2013.01); H04N 21/26616 (2013.01); H04N 21/4331 (2013.01); H04N 21/4384 (2013.01); H04N 21/44016 (2013.01); H04N 21/472 (2013.01); H04N 21/6581 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for allowing a streaming server to efficiently provide frames associated with a media stream to a client device. A streaming server receives multiple media streams and determines which frames in the multiple media streams are key frames. When a connection request is received from a client device, a key frame is selected and provided to the client device. A client device receiving a key frame does not have to drop any predictive frames prior to playing a media stream.