SMOOTH, STATELESS CLIENT MEDIA STREAMING Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H04L12/70 G06F15/16 H04N7/173 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to computer engineering and specifically to methods for smooth playback of media on a client. Disclosed is a computer-readable method for smooth playback of media on a client. The method includes a step of sending from the client a request for a chunk of media to a server over a network, wherein the chunk comprises a uniform portion of the media available from the server for multiple clients, and the request comprises a standard hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, which does not include byte ranges, such that the corresponding response can be cached by a common Internet caching server which does not cache the byte range. Further, the method comprises receiving at the client the requested chunk and parsing the chunk into a metadata portion and a media data portion.

EFFECT: providing uninterrupted media streaming by a client computer device owing to time synchronisation between the client and server.

20 cl, 4 dwg