Patent ID: 7996482

Claim:
A system comprising: a) a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) enabled network interface; b) RDMA enabled playback circuitry associated with the RDMA enabled network interface comprising: i) an RDMA enabled buffer circuit associated with the RDMA enabled network interface and adapted to: receive an RDMA address range of select media content defining a range of addresses in a storage unit of a centralized media content server in which the select media content is stored; and perform at least one RDMA transfer via the RDMA enabled network interface to transfer data stored in the RDMA address range from the storage unit of the centralized media content server to the RDMA enabled buffer circuit; ii) a playback buffer circuit associated with the RDMA enabled buffer circuit comprising: a media content processing function adapted to: receive the data from the RDMA enabled buffer circuit based on a playback clock; and process the data to provide the select media content in a format ready for playback; and a playback buffer adapted to store the select media content from the media content processing function for playback.