Patent ID: 8275898

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a network media server comprising: a memory device; a processor; a content receiver to receive an ingest stream of media content from a media source in response to a request for the media content from a local host; a concurrent streamer coupled to the content receiver, the concurrent streamer to send at least a portion of a local stream of the media content to the local host concurrent with the reception of the ingest stream of the media content by the content receiver; a protocol engine coupled to the concurrent streamer, the protocol engine to send a protocol element from the network media server to the local host, wherein the protocol element indicates an ingest status of the ingest stream at the content receiver; and wherein the media content comprises at least two sub-segments of media content from the media source, the ingest stream comprises at least two sub-segment ingest streams, and the local stream comprises at least two sub-segment local streams, wherein the protocol element comprises sub-segment protocol elements for each of the at least two sub-segment ingest streams, wherein the sub-segment protocol elements identify a sub-structure of the at least two sub-segments of media content and indicate an ingest status of each of the at least two sub-segment ingest streams.