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Abstract

The present invention provides a comprehensive development platform and client-side technology for intelligent and cost-effective delivery of video, audio and broadband content over a network, such as the Internet, to desktop, mobile computing, and network connected devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, an intelligent delivery system (IDS) uses a storage shuffling technique to efficiently store to a target file segments of downloaded content received in a random order from a content source. The IDS shuffles the randomly received content segments as they are received in allocated ordered physical piece positions of the target file such that at any point during the download, the target file does not need to be larger than the cumulative size of the content segments currently downloaded or received. Additionally, each received content segment only needs a small, bounded amount of processing at any point during the download. Upon receipt of the last of the randomly received content segments, the IDS has shuffled or otherwise provides the target file with all the content segments in the correct order as desired. As such, the IDS reduces download performance degradation due to large media files and disk swapping from using virtual memory.

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First Claim