Streaming media bitrate switching methods and apparatus
US7054911B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 16, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 30, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 23, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/568
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for operating a streaming media cache includes receiving a series of streaming media data packets from an upstream server, each of the series of streaming media data packets having media data encoded in one of a plurality of encoding formats, forming bundles of data packets from the series of streaming media data packets, and storing bundles of data packets into a disk memory when every data packet within each bundle have a similar encoding format.
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