US 12,081,841 B2
Multisource media delivery systems and methods
Jeffrey Riedmiller, Novato, CA (US); Mingchao Yu, Sydney (AU); and Jason Michael Cloud, Clayton, CA (US)
Assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US)
Appl. No. 18/256,987
Filed by Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/063723
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 12, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/133039, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,265, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0056649 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 21/2183 (2011.01); H04N 21/60 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/60 (2013.01) [H04N 21/2183 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for delivering media content to one or more clients over a distributed system, the method comprising:
at a first device:
generating a plurality of network-coded symbols from a plurality of original symbols representing a first media asset;
generating an original plurality of coded variants of the first media asset,
wherein each coded variant includes one or more symbols that include at least one of (i) one or more original symbols of the plurality of original symbols and (ii) one or more network-coded symbols of the plurality of network-coded symbols, and distributing a first coded variant of the original plurality of coded variants to a first cache on a first server device for storage in the first cache; and
distributing a second coded variant of the original plurality of coded variants to a second cache on a second server device for storage in the second cache.