Patent ID: 8230097
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: G06F,H03M,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a transport mode comprising the activities of: transmitting a multicast stream by a server to a media player application, said multicast stream including multimedia data requested by a user and being used in determining a transport mode of a data stream able to be received by said media player application; checking said multicast stream by said media player application for features of a multicast streaming format to determine if said media player application can receive said multicast stream; automatically enabling a unicast transmission of a copy of said multimedia data requested by the user to the media player application during said activity of checking enabling said media player application to receive and begin displaying said requested data while determining if said media player application can receive said transmitted multicast stream; automatically enabling multicast processing of the transmitted multicast stream to the media player application and terminating said transmission of said unicast transmission of said multimedia data in response to detecting features of a multicast streaming format within said multicast stream by the media player application during said activity of checking.