System and methods of streamlining media files from a dispersed peer network to maintain quality of service

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8775657
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11982081

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Media content, including content suitable for streaming, is distributed to and accessible over a communications network by computer nodes within a peer storage network of computer nodes hosting respective content stores. Discrete portions of a content file are multiply distributed to and persisted in a distributed set of the content stores existing within the storage network such that various content stores persist subsets of the content file portions. A computer node retrieves the discrete portions of the content file from the various distributed content stores, depending on node availability, the particular discrete portions there available, and node and network performance factors sufficient to maintain a minimum quality of service, thereby enabling streaming presentation of the content file on the requesting computer node.

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  • SONY CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Goschie, Mark W Tualatin, US 11 1627
Hudson, Michael D Portland, US 28 2170
Menon, Sudhir Portland, US 15 1644
Shipley, Glen Curtis Portland, US 11 1627
Stewart, Darin Hillsboro, US 8 1472
Windheim, Brian L Sherwood, US 13 1655

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