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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a media distribution network for live streaming are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes directing live video content from a sender device to a first video processing node hosted on a first server within a network, wherein the first server is located within a given geographical proximity of the sender device; determining locations within the network for hosting additional video processing nodes within a given geographical proximity of a receiver device; transmitting the live video content from the first video processing node to an additional video processing node within the network by implementing (i) a multicast overlay network over the network and (ii) a data transfer protocol between the video processing nodes in conjunction with the multicast overlay network; and transmitting the live video content from the additional video processing node to the receiver device associated with the additional video processing node.