Patent ID: 8301725
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: dividing a stream of data for a contiguous time based stream of content for a same single program into multiple media files, wherein the multiple media files comprise a first group of one or more media files and a second group of one or more media files, wherein the first group of media files are configured to be stored with a first encoding in a transfer protocol compliant format and wherein the second group of media files are configured to be stored with a second encoding in the transfer protocol compliant format; generating a first playlist file having a plurality of tags and a plurality of Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an ordering of media content in the first group of media files to recreate the stream of data; generating a second playlist file having a plurality of tags and a plurality of URIs indicating an ordering of media content in the second group of media files to recreate the stream of data; and generating a variant playlist file having a plurality of tags and a plurality of URIs indicating the first playlist file and the second playlist file.