Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Parallel streaming
- Patent Title (中): 并行流式传输
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Application No.: US13777241Application Date: 2013-02-26
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Publication No.: US08966014B2Publication Date: 2015-02-24
- Inventor: Anthony N. Park , Neil D. Hunt , Wei Wei
- Applicant: NETFLIX, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Gatos
- Assignee: NETFLIX Inc.
- Current Assignee: NETFLIX Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Gatos
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention set forth techniques for a content player to stream a media file using multiple network connections. To stream the media file, the content player downloads metadata associated with a requested media file, establishes a network connection with multiple content servers (or multiple network connections with a single content server or both) and begins requesting portions of the media file. In response, the requested portions are transmitted to the content player. The content player may employ a predictive multi-connection scheduling approach to determine which network connection to use in downloading a given chunk.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130173758A1 PARALLEL STREAMING Public/Granted day:2013-07-04
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