Patent ID: 9276979
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented method of streaming media on a computing device, the computing device including a streaming client, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a local streaming adapter and a selected media file for playback on the computing device; sending a request from the streaming client to the local streaming adapter for playback of the selected media file, identifying a location of one or more stream files on a remote server, wherein the one or more stream files includes the selected media file formatted for delivery according to a transfer protocol and further includes streaming template transactions for supporting communicating from the local streaming adapter to the streaming client; downloading the one or more stream files to the local streaming adapter; and streaming the selected media file from the local streaming adapter to the streaming client, wherein streaming transactions sent from the local streaming adapter to the streaming client are obtained from the streaming template transactions.