Patent ID: 9491212
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for streaming media, comprising: receiving, by a media controller, a media streaming request sent by a user equipment requesting data, and allocating an index to the user equipment, wherein the index is used to indicate an address of a buffer corresponding to the user equipment in the media controller; binding, by the media controller, the streaming request and the index of the user equipment and storing the bound streaming request and the index of the user equipment in a correspondence table in the media controller; sending the streaming request and the index of the user equipment to a media server in a distribution network, so that the media server controls a storage device to send the data to the address of the buffer in the media controller corresponding to the index, according to the correspondence table instead of sending the data directly from the storage device to the user equipment; and receiving, by the media controller, the data sent by the storage device, storing the data in the buffer and streaming the data to the user equipment according to the correspondence table.