Patent ID: 8214520
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media with computer-executable instructions embodied thereon to change a server of packet streams of an instance of media content from a first server to a second server, the first and second servers having copies of the same instance of media content, the method comprising: initiating a streaming session by communicating the instance in a first stream of packets from a first server to a recipient; identifying and communicating to a second server a point in the temporal ordering within the instance at which the instance will be streamed from the second server; communicating a second stream of packets from the second server, wherein the recipient does not experience an interruption in the streaming session and does not experience an interruption in execution of the instance; identifying and communicating to one or more subsequent servers one or more points in the temporal ordering at which the instance will be sent from a subsequent server; and communicating subsequent streams of packets from subsequent servers, wherein the recipient does not experience an interruption in the streaming session and does not experience an interruption in execution of the instance.