Method and apparatus for seaming of streaming content
US6263371A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 10, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 10, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/6437
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In the face of unacceptable data loss on connections between a content source and a content consumer, additional connections therebetween are opened. These additional connections are preferably opened between the content source and a proxy disposed between the content source and the content consumer. The proxy may then seam together data streams received from the content source across the additional connections before passing a resultant seamed stream to the content consumer. The seamed stream may be constructed by filling in information gaps in any of the data streams received from the content source with content derived from others of the data streams received from the content source. This derivation may be made on the basis of identifying characteristics (e.g., packet sequence numbers and/or time stamps) common throughout each of the data streams received from the content source.
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