Patent ID: 8904022
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A real-time data streaming system, comprising: a stream originator for a stream having at least two portions, wherein each portion contains a different part of the stream, the stream originator have a plug-in that encapsulates data from media encoders into a format for distribution by the stream originator and a level 1 device; a time gradient unit that sets a time gradient for each data stream receiver wherein the time gradient is an amount of stream data to be held by a stack of a particular data stream receiver; and one or more data stream receivers wherein one data stream receiver is a stream destination that has a path from the level 1 device through the one or more data stream receivers and wherein the stream that arrives at the stream destination has followed one or more channels through the one or more data stream receivers so that the at least two portions of the stream are split and then recombined at the stream destination to reform the stream.