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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2013
Espial Group Inc., Ontario, CA (US);
Robert S. Horen, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Eivind Sarto, Oakland, CA (US);
Khai Truong, San Jose, CA (US);
Espial Group Inc., , CA;
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus of distributing a video stream is provided. At a publishing point relay, a plurality of video files encoded from a portion of the video stream from a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming (HLS) Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) encoding device are received. Each of the encoded video files having a different bit-rate, the encoded video files received using a protocol for transferring files. Edge publishing point servers are determined that are registered with the publishing point relay to distribute the audio/video stream. Each of the encoded video files received by the publishing point relay are relayed to each of the determined edge publishing points as each video file is received from the HTTP ABR encoding device.