Patent ID: 9332048
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a first media stream at a client device from a streaming server, the streaming server receiving the first media stream as live media from a media aggregation server, the first media stream being converted by an encoder farm into key frames and predictive frames; sending a channel change request from the client device to the streaming server, the channel change request corresponding to a switch from the first media stream to a second media stream; and receiving a key frame at the client device in response to sending the channel change request, the key frame being identified as the next available key frame associated with the second media stream after the streaming server receives the channel change request, wherein receiving the key frame results in a time variance between receiving the second media stream on the client device and receiving the second media stream on a different client device, wherein the second media stream is the same media stream being received at the client device and at the different client device,