Patent ID: 8661496

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a plurality of servers that run one or more twitch video games to produce a plurality of streams of uncompressed streaming interactive video; and a compression unit that compresses one or more of the streams of uncompressed streaming interactive video produced by the servers into a new stream of compressed streaming interactive video for transmission in packetized form through an Internet connection to a plurality of client devices associated with a corresponding plurality of users, the client devices not running the one or more twitch video games locally, at least one user providing control input to at least one of the servers, the at least one user being geographically remote from a premises where at least one of the servers is located; wherein the new stream of compressed streaming interactive video is compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency of 90 milliseconds, from a user control input to display of a response to the user control input on a client device of a user, over a transmission distance of up to 1500 miles.