Patent ID: 9742824
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for distributing over the Internet, from a server system to one or more user systems, a pre-recorded audio or video program stored in digitally encoded form on computer-readable media, the method comprising: reading, by at least one computer of the server system, the pre-recorded audio or video program from the computer-readable media; supplying, at the server system, media data elements representing the program, each media data element comprising a digitally encoded portion of the program and having a playback rate; serially identifying the media data elements, said serial identification indicating a time sequence of the media data elements; storing the media data elements in a data structure under the control of the server system; receiving requests at the server system via one or more data connections over the Internet, for one or more of the media data elements stored in the data structure, each received request specifying one or more serial identifiers of the requested one or more media data elements, each received request originating from a requesting user system of the one or more user systems; and responsive to the requests, sending, by the server system, the one or more media data elements having the one or more specified serial identifiers, to the requesting user systems corresponding to the requests; wherein