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Pre-computing streaming media payload method and apparatus
Jason Lango,Ram Kesavan,Konstantinos Roussos,Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai,J. Christopher Wagner +4 more
- 10 Feb 2004
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TL;DR: In this paper, a method for pre-computing a streaming media payload in a server is proposed, where a data file is received from a server, a plurality of data packets from the data file, and the plurality of sets of data objects are formed by each data object comprising a subset of the data packets.
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Abstract: A method for pre-computing a streaming media payload in a server includes receiving a data file from a streaming media server, determining a plurality of data packets from the data file, dividing the plurality of data packets into a plurality of sets of data packets, forming a plurality of data objects, each data object comprising a set of data packets from the plurality of sets of data packets, and storing the plurality of data objects in a server memory, wherein each data object is individually accessible from the server memory.
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